Mr. E. R. Dalglish 



On leaving Cambridge, Mr. Dalglish got together a small 

 stud of hurdle racers and steeplechasers, the best among them 

 being Solon, Daybreak, Neptune, and Little Flo. These four 

 — all his own property, with the exception of Daybreak, who 

 belonged to Mr. Houldsworth — he took with him to the Liver- 

 pool Autumn Meeting of 1875, described by him as the most 

 successful he ever enofagfed in, when he won the November 

 Handicap Hurdle Race on Solon by a head, landing at the 

 same time a good stake ; was second, beaten a neck, on 

 Neptune for the Selling Hurdle Race ; won the Stand Handi- 

 cap Steeplechase on Little Flo, and the Grand Sefton Steeple- 

 chase on Daybreak, on whose success depended a large sum 

 of money. On the same horse, carrying a 14 lbs. penalty, 

 he won the Craven Handicap Steeplechase, after the race 

 buying a horse named Gazelle, who ran second, on whom he 

 afterwards won several good races. 



In his three rides in the Grand National, the subject of 

 our memoir was not so successful. 



In 1873, the race won by Mr. Richardson on Disturbance, 

 he rode Solicitor, whom he had backed previously for a hundred 

 to be first over the water, which bet he won with ease. The 

 horse, however, was unluckily brought down by Broadlea, at 

 the fence beyond Valentine's Brook, the second time round, 

 when going well, Red Nob falling at the same time. In 1874 

 he had the mount on Mr. H. Houldsworth's Last of the 

 Lambs, who, however, refused the first fence and fell ; whilst 

 the following year, when Pathfinder won, he was again unlucky, 

 his mount. New York, belonging to Mr. F. Pratt, falling at 

 the second fence from the start. In the Bristol Royal Steeple- 

 chase, in 1874, won by Scots Grey, the first which ever took 

 place, and at which the King, then Prince of Wales, was 

 present as the guest of Lord Fitzhardinge, Mr. Dalglish 



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