Colonel C. Rivers Bulkely 



come to it. Had you done so just now you couldn't have 

 lost.' " 



Under the name of " Mr. Charles," Colonel Bulkely rode 

 and won a great many steeplechases in Ireland, and, according 

 to the late Mr. Moore, of Jockey Hall, was the first person to 

 ride a horse over the banks there with a standing martingale. 

 One was used on Scots Grey with great success, as hitherto he 

 would never be kept straight. He was on the back of that 

 good horse, Rufus, the first time he ever won. A magnificent 

 fencer over every description of country, he was wanting in the 

 necessary turn of speed, otherwise there is no saying how many 

 races he would not have accounted for. 



The subject of our memoir wound up a brilliant career in 

 the saddle at Bangor, in 1879, when he rode Mayboy, belong- 

 ing to Mr. Lees, of Pickhill, in the Red Coat steeplechase, and, 

 incredible though it may appear, it is nevertheless a fact that, 

 not only during the period he was on the Turf, but in his whole 

 life. Colonel Rivers Bulkely only made three bets, two of which 

 he won. He raced, in fact, solely for honour and glory and, 

 consequently, pleasure ; and it is good to know that he had 

 plenty of all three. 



Equally at home in the hunting field, when the late Empress 

 of Austria hunted for a season in Ireland, Major Rivers 

 Bulkely was selected to pilot her Majesty, an appointment for 

 which his long riding experience in that country eminently 

 fitted him. 



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