Gentlemen Riders 



Mr. GARRETT MOORE 



The late Mr. Alan McDonough seems to have occupied pretty 

 much the same position towards the budding steeplechase-rider 

 of his own nationality that our own Arthur Yates has so long 

 enjoyed over here, and it is not too much to say that up to the 

 time of his death there was hardly a rider of note you could 

 mention amongst his own countrymen, and not a few of our 

 young military horsemen as well, who had not passed through 

 his hands at one time or another. 



Few of these did him more credit than the popular Irishman 

 named above, whose comparatively early death in May of 

 1908 was the cause of general and widespread regret. The 

 eldest son of the late Mr. John Hubert Moore, of Jockey Hall, 

 Curragh, himself a famous sportsman, who died only five years 

 ago at the age of eighty-seven, " Garry " — to give him the 

 name he was known by far and wide — came over to this 

 country somewhere in the sixties, being a mere boy at the 

 time, and not long after rode his first steeplechase at Bangor, 

 where he had a mount on a horse belonging to Colonel Cotton, 

 afterwards Lord Combermere, for whom he subsequently 

 managed a few horses. His dSui, however, was not a success, 

 for his mount fell at the water, to be followed by another later 

 in the day at the same place. In 1867 and the following year 

 he only rode one winner in each. In 1869, however, things 

 improved a bit, as he rode five winners, the last being Knight 

 of Australia, belonging to Alan McDonough, under whose 

 tuition " Garry " had judiciously placed himself in the interim, 

 when he won the Tradesmen's Plate (Steeplechase) at Limerick 

 by a length from eight others. 



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