Gentlemen Riders 



started, Honeycomb, afterwards won twenty-four races. Two 

 years afterwards he was sufficiently recovered to again purchase 

 a couple of horses, and with Monkshood won the Grand 

 National Hunters' Steeplechase, run that year at Derby (1887). 

 The other horse was as nearly as possible the equal of Monks- 

 hood at home, but would not reproduce in public the form he 

 possessed, running constantly second at Sandown and other 

 meetings when he could have won, though he had been ridden 

 by Captain E. R. Owen, Mr. C. Cunningham, and other first- 

 rate jockeys. Eventually, Outlaw was entered for the Cup at 

 Thirsk, and Mr. Meysey-Thompson determined to ride him 

 himself, although he had had a bad fall in a concealed hole, 

 when hunting on the moors above Scarborough only five weeks 

 previously, and broke three of his ribs. The bandages, indeed, 

 had not yet been removed. In the race Outlaw from the very 

 start would not try to keep with the other horses, and the 

 Ring began to offer 100 to i against his chance. He was 

 soon so far behind that his jockey, seeing humouring was no 

 good, determined to try what a free application of the whip 

 would effect. A few smart strokes made a wonderful difference 

 in the mode of the mulish brute, and he was quickly at the 

 heels of the rearmost horses, so continuing to threaten him 

 with the whip, Mr. Meysey-Thompson succeeded in turning 

 into the straight with only two horses left in front. Such a 

 lead had they, however, that when the late Mr. Egremont 

 Lascelles, who was on his way to the station, inquired of his 

 companion and trainer, the late Charles Lund, whether Outlaw 

 yet had any chance, the answer was, •* None whatever." 



Outlaw, running still under the influence of the whip, with 

 which he was threatened each stride, gradually closed with the 

 leaders, and about a hundred yards from the stand drew level 

 with Blue Black, who, ridden by "Mr. Abington," was a hot 



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