Mr. Garrett Moore 



Some idea of the benefit he derived from this early training 

 may be gathered from the fact that the following year we find 

 him with eighteen wins, tying with Mr. J. M. Richardson for 

 third place on the list of gentlemen riders to Arthur Yates (49) 

 and Jack Goodwin (23), his most notable successes being on 

 Joey Ladle, belonging to himself, on whom, besides others of 

 minor importance, he won the Drogheda Plate at Punchestown. 

 In 1871 " Garry," riding Melton Mowbray in the National Hunt 

 Steeplechase, run at Burton, just got done by a head by Capt. 

 " Doggie " Smith on Daybreak ; and the following year he 

 sported silk for the first time in the Grand National on the 

 hard-pulling Scots Grey, the horse of all others, he told us 

 once, he liked his name to be most associated with, and on 

 whom, later on, he won, amongst other races, the first Bristol 

 Steeplechase, at which King Edward — then Prince of Wales — 

 was present as the guest of Lord Fitzhardinge. The same 

 year, too, found him fourth on the list of gentlemen riders to 

 Messrs. J. M. Richardson, Spence, and Crawshaw. In the 

 next two years he did not win many races, but in 1875 he won 

 the Great Metropolitan at Croydon on Fawley. In 1878 he 

 was third on Pride of Kildare, belonging to his father, in the 

 Grand National, won by Shifnal ; and the following year 

 attained the summit of his ambition by winning the race 

 outright on his own horse. The Liberator, who started second 

 favourite at 5 to i. 



The well-named son of Dan O'Connell and Mary O'Toole 

 was a cunning old horse, and only seen to advantage at 

 Liverpool, where, as none knew better than himself, if he 

 attempted to take the same liberties with the fences as it was 

 his custom of an afternoon at the artificial courses round 

 about London, he would not only fall, but hurt himself into the 

 bargain. 



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