Gentlemen Riders 



after a great race from the last fence with the Hon. Reginald 

 Ward's Benedictine, 9 yrs., 12 st. 10 lb., ridden by his owner. 

 Ford of Fyne, 5 yrs., 12 st. i lb. (Mr. J. M. Shiel), being third, 

 four lengths away. 



In 1903 the popular "Snip" again scored in the National 

 Hunt Steeplechase, this time on Miss Clifden, a mare he had 

 previously steered in the Grand National. 



He was once, too, successful in the Royal livery which he 

 donned at the shortest possible notice ; his own pleasure at 

 the result being mingled with regret that the Royal owner was 

 not present to see his horse win. 



A terrible accident when riding in a hurdle race at 

 Sandown somewhere in the nineties, which would have 

 certainly killed most men, and from which it was a wonder he 

 ever recovered, necessarily kept the bold " Snip " out of the 

 saddle for some time, only to come up smiling in the following 

 spring, apparently with unimpaired nerve, and riding better 

 than ever. 



Mr. albert H. RIPLEY 



Though he did not ride in public to anything like the extent 

 of his younger brother, the popular " Snip," the subject of our 

 memoir was an exceptionally fine horseman, having the happy 

 knack of making himself quite at home on any sort of animal 

 you liked to put him on — to our thinking as good a test of 

 horsemanship, in the true sense of the word, as one could 

 well have. 



Though a winner of a good number of races of sorts, 



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