Mr. C. J. Cunningham 



Cockade, Leap Year, Keelson, Morebattle, Manderay, Kale, 

 Hendersyde, Why Not, and King Charles. The last named, 

 Mr. Cunningham always declared, was the best horse he ever 

 owned, and would have won the Liverpool in a canter had he 

 lived. He died, unfortunately, in 1896 of inflammation of the 

 lungs, having the previous year won eight out of the twelve 

 races he engaged in. In the National Hunt Steeplechase, the 

 subject of our sketch had quite his share of luck, for he won 

 this once important race on no less than three occasions, viz. on 

 Dry Bread, at Derby in 1882 ; on Why Not, at Highfield, near 

 Malton, in 1886; and on Harlequin in 1890, on which occasion 

 the race was run in Scotland, in conjunction with the Edgbaston 

 Hunt meeting. 



Considering that he stood 6 ft. i in. in his stockinged feet, 

 and that his average bodily weight during the seventeen years 

 he was riding was over twelve stone, the record Charlie 

 Cunningham left behind him was indeed one to be proud of. 



In addition to race-riding, he was a first-rate rider to 

 hounds, a fine game shot and fisherman. He was very fond 

 of curling, too, and in his young days had been a fine cricketer. 



As a judge of hunters he had few equals, his services being 

 always in demand at the principal shows in Scotland, as well as 

 in England and Dublin ; whilst as an agriculturist he took a 

 very high place both on the practical and scientific sides of the 

 profession. As a judge of stock, too, he had no superior. 



A good story is told of him when presiding once at the 

 dinner in connection with the Shepherds' Show at Yetholm, 

 just after the war in the Soudan. General Gatacre, who was 

 staying at the time with General Wauchope of Yetholm, in 

 the course of a speech descriptive of pastoral life in the Soudan, 

 showing how a good shepherd was rewarded, told the company 

 that if a shepherd increased his flock in one year, then 



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