Mr. HUGH OWEN 



Like his celebrated brother, the much-lamented Major Roddy 

 Owen, the subject of our sketch may be said to have 

 been cradled in the saddle from his very earliest childhood. 

 The eldest son of the late Hugh Darby Owen of Bettws 

 Hall, Montgomeryshire, and Lady Muriel, daughter of the 

 19th Earl of Shrewsbury, he commenced his riding career 

 at Worcester in the early seventies, his first winning mount, 

 we believe, being on a horse of his own, in a private sweep- 

 stakes made up over night, for a two-mile race on the flat ; 

 the other two nominators being the late Sir Morgan Crofton 

 and Mr. Reginald Herbert; Rocket, the mount of the last- 

 named gentleman, being backed against the field. Neither, 

 however, had a chance with the new aspirant to riding honours, 

 who coming away at the distance eventually won in the com- 

 monest of canters. Since that time until the close of the 

 past century, at which period he practically abandoned race- 

 riding, Mr. Hugh Owen has been perpetually before the 

 public in the saddle, and with conspicuous success, especially on 

 the flat. Though never aspiring to Grand National honours, 

 he rode Earl Marshall into second place for the Sefton Steeple- 

 chase at Liverpool. 



Mr. Houldsworth's Solicitor; Citizen, belonging to Sir John 

 Lister Kaye ; and Thornfield, the property of Mr. Leopold de 

 Rothschild, who with Richard Marsh in the saddle won the 

 Croydon Hurdle race in 1880, and was third in the Grand 

 National later on, were also ridden by him at various times. 



Mr. Owen also rode in many a steeplechase and 



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