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saddle, and over a very severe country, he won the open 

 Handicap Steeplechase on Lady Day, despite the fact that he 

 broke a stirrup leather at his very first fence. 



Croxton Park saw him to the fore again in the Billesdon 

 Coplow Stakes and Granby Handicap on Lord Calthorpe's 

 Felix and Bickerstaffe ; whilst on Tabernacle he won the 

 Warwick Welter for Lord Aylesford. At Ayr he won the 

 Corinthian Handicap Plate for James Barber on Disturbance, 

 and the Hawkstone Welter at Shrewsbury ; later on for Mr. 

 Ray on Scylla, beating Jimmy Adams by a short head, with 

 John Osborne third, the same distance off; whilst besides other 

 races, he won the Warwick Grand National for Mr. Chaplin on 

 Schiedam. 



In 1872 "The Bold Harrow Boy," as he was dubbed by 

 his admirers, won no less than fifty-six times ; one of his finest 

 efforts, perhaps, being the Six Furlong Welter race run on the 

 Thursday at the Epsom Summer meeting, when he won on 

 Bickerstaffe for the late Lord Lonsdale in a field of seventeen 

 runners, his artistic finish provoking admiration not only from 

 the spectators, but also from the jockeys riding in the race. 

 This was not his first appearance at Epsom, he having won 

 the Welter Plate on Lincoln at the previous Spring meeting, 

 beating Tom French and a large field. It is a curious 

 coincidence that, of the four races on the flat he rode in at 

 Epsom and Liverpool, he should win them all. 



In 1873, besides winning a lot of more or less important 

 races, he set the seal on his fame by winning the Grand 

 National on Disturbance. 



Despite the fact that he had just previously won the big 

 Steeplechase at Croydon, Disturbance was allowed to start at 

 quite an outside price, backers in general refusing to believe 

 that such a diminutive horse could carry the substantial 



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