Mr. H. Crawshaw 



which the other seconds at once stopped the affair, declaring 

 that otherwise the wounded man would certainly die on the 

 field. So we all returned to Paris, and in a few hours the 

 papers were full of the terrible duel which had been fought 

 that morning, the combatants being magnified into heroes of 

 the deepest dye." 



Mr. Crawshaw rode altogether six times in the Grand 

 National ; but though three of his mounts were heavily backed, 

 especially Grey of Warwick, his mount in 1869, he had no sort 

 of luck in the race. 



In 1 87 1 he rode The Doctor (11 st), which celebrated 

 animal the Duke of Hamilton had purchased after his 

 memorable race with The Colonel the previous year. 



The Doctor, who started at 10 to i, refused at the second 

 fence ; but his jockey got him over, and going on in 

 pursuit soon caught his horse up. Just before reaching 

 Valentine's Brook, however, Scots Grey swerved against the 

 blinkered Cecil, and knocking him over so interfered with 

 The Doctor that the Duke's horse took no further part in 

 the race. 



Mr. Crawshaw did not again ride at Aintree until 1874, the 

 year Reugny won, when he steered Vintner, 10 st. 3 lbs., for 

 Sir Robert Harvey, who, starting third favourite at 7 to i, 

 struck the bank at the second fence with his knees and fell, 

 his jockey breaking his collar-bone. In 1877 Mr. Crawshaw 

 rode for the last time in the Grand National, on Sir C. 

 Rushout's Arbitrator (10 st. 6 lbs.), but the horse fell dead 

 beat at Valentine's the second time round. 



In the National Hunt Steeplechase of 1875, won by 

 Gazelle, Mr. Crawshaw was second on Pilgrim, belonging to 

 George Fordham the jockey, in a field of eighteen. Captain 

 Smith on Walloon being third. The race that year was at 



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