Gentlemen Riders 



foreign owner, with a foreign-bred horse, ridden by a foreign 

 jockey, the winner turning up in the Vicomte de Buisseret's. 

 Nord Quest, an entire horse by Gamin La Vague, who, 

 admirably ridden by a Monsieur Morand, started at 8 to i, 

 and won by two lengths from Goldfish, the mount of Mr. 

 Bletsoe, and ten others, an objection to the winner for crossing 

 being subsequently overruled. 



SIR JOHN DUGDALE ASTLEY, BART. 



An old song, probably unknown to the present generation, but 

 a great favourite in former days, written in commemoration of 

 the event which has made the 5th of November historical to all 

 time, describes how on the date mentioned — 



" Guy Fawkes, the Prince of Sinisters, 

 One day blew up the House of Lords, 

 The King and all his Ministers." 



In the next line, however, the merry songster, with a regard 

 to veracity which does him credit, qualifies this statement by 

 remarking parenthetically : 



" At least, he would have blown them up," etc., etc., etc. 



With this example before us, we see no earthly reason 

 why, in spite of the fact — so far as we are aware — that his 

 record is limited to two solitary performances in the pigskin, 

 we should not include amongst our "Gentlemen Riders" the 

 popular Baronet named above, there being no doubt that, but 

 for his Falstaffian proportions, " The Mate " would to a certainty 

 have ridden the winner of the Grand Military, to say nothing 



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