Gentlemen Riders 



astonished officers thought it about time to inquire who the 

 mysterious stranger was. More than this, so pleased were 

 they at his performance that they gave Albert Ripley — for he 

 it was — a most cordial invitation to pay them another visit at a 

 future date. 



Perhaps had they known that the horse on which the 

 stranger had beaten them all was one he had picked up not 

 long before for a "tenner," the members of the Drag might not 

 have been quite so well pleased. 



CAPTAIN PERCY BEWICKE 



Possessing as he did, to an unusual degree, those qualifications 

 so essential to riding over a country with success, viz. good 

 hands, good judgment, and iron nerve, it is no flattery to say that 

 during the period he was before the public in the capacity of 

 race-rider, the superior to Captain Percy Bewicke would have 

 been hard indeed to name. Educated at Harrow, where he 

 made his mark in the cricket field, and at racquets, Mr. 

 Bewicke in process of time was appointed to a commission in 

 the 15th Hussars, and that he was not long in giving a taste 

 of his quality is made plain from the fact that, within a short 

 time of his joining, we find him winning the Subalterns' 

 Challenge Cup at the Regimental meeting on Westwind, 

 belonging to a brother officer, and the 15th Hussars Consola- 

 tion race the following day on Mr. C. Browne's Sincerity. 

 Going gradually ahead, he became possessed in 1890 of a 

 real good horse in Cameronian, whose breeding, seeing that 

 he was by Isonomy, out of Twine The Plaiden, may be 



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