Mr. J. M. Richardson 



burden of list. iilb. successfully in such a long and tiring 

 race. 



To prove what a good performance it was, the heavily 

 backed Rhysworth, who was second — a horse who, when the 

 property of Mr. Henry Saville, had run third for the Derby, 

 and who, oddly enough, owed all his jumping education to Mr. 

 Richardson, in whose care he had been for some time at Limber 

 Magna — ran clean away from a large field the very next day 

 in the Sefton Steeplechase, carrying the substantial weight 

 of i2st. y\h. 



To celebrate the event, his Lincolnshire friends shortly 

 afterwards gave a big dinner at Brigg, at which Mr. Richardson 

 was the guest of the evening. 



When we add that Sir John Astley, in his most genial 

 m.ood, took the chair, and that the motto on the top of 

 the menu card was, " Disturbance, but no Row," it may 

 be gathered that the entertainment was of a fairly festive 

 character. 



In 1874 he only rode in one race, and that the Grand 

 National, which he won on Reugny. Little did those who 

 cheered him to the echo as he cantered home on the favourite 

 imagine that they had seen the last of this brilliant horseman 

 on a public race-course. But so it was. Unjustly blamed for 

 the inability of the owner to get what he considered a fair price 

 about his horse, and offended beyond measure at the proposal 

 made to himself with a view to sending the favourite back on 

 the quotations — disgusted, in fact, with the sordid nature of the 

 whole business — he made up his mind there and then that, win 

 or lose, his race on Reugny should be his last. 



"And I have never since regretted the step I took," 

 remarked Mr. Richardson, when discussing the matter with us 

 the other day, " for besides having won every big steeplechase 



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