Gentlemen Riders 



rise to a good deal of chaff amongst his friends, who opined 

 that " Lummy " Harford must indeed have come down in the 

 scale to ride pony races in his old age. 



On his marriage in the following year, Colonel Harford 

 settled down at Down Place, Windsor, where he still resides. 



THE HON. HENRY FITZWILLIAM 



Forty years ago the better class of English sportsmen, more 

 especially those who gave the preference to cross-country 

 sport over any other, would have no more dreamt of missing 

 Punchestown than they would have of keeping aloof from 

 Epsom or Ascot. Nowadays, though still as popular a meet- 

 ing as ever it was, the crowd in the stands and on the race- 

 course will be found almost entirely composed of the native 

 element, the only English visitors probably being those con- 

 nected with the Vice-Regal party, and the military quartered 

 in Ireland, who from time immemorial have always been 

 staunch supporters of the meeting, some of our most celebrated 

 horsemen having won their spurs there in their early riding 

 days. All who have ever been to Punchestown will remember 

 what is called the " Big Double," and those who do not might 

 consult with advantage the set of coloured engravings, 

 published in 1873, in which Captain Arthur Smith, one of 

 the most brilliant cross-country horsemen of his time, as he 

 was one of the most popular, is depicted winning the Conyng- 

 ham Cup, from a large field in a canter on Heraut d'Armes, 

 who, on the strength of his victory, was afterwards well 

 backed for the Grand National of 1874, which, according 



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