Gentlemen Riders 



much-coveted trophy on Ormerod for Captain A. E. Whitaker, 

 beating, amongst others, Why Not, ridden by Captain " Roddy" 

 Owen. 



Altogether, from 1884 to 1897, i^i which year he gave up 

 riding, Captain Bewicke won on his own and other people's 

 horses, no fewer than 203 races, his two best years being 1891 

 and 1892, when he headed the list of gentlemen riders with 

 thirty-seven and thirty-eight wins respectively. 



GENERAL BURN-MURDOCH, C.B. 



Of the many military riders of recent times who find honourable 

 mention in this volume, none are better entitled to a prominent 

 position in the Temple of Fame than the distinguished soldier 

 who forms the subject of this chapter, and it speaks volumes for 

 his ability in the saddle that his race-riding career should have 

 been the success it was, considering how its progress must 

 necessarily have been interfered with by his multifarious duties 

 in connection with the profession to which he belongs. 



The eldest son of the late Rev. Canon Burn- Murdoch, 

 the subject of our memoir was born on March 26th, 1859, and 

 received his education at Eton, after which, in 1878, he joined 

 the I St Royal Dragoons. 



In 1882, in which year the regiment was quartered in 

 Dublin, General Burn-Murdoch, being then a subaltern, won 

 his maiden Steeplechase, the Sligo Hunt Cup, on a horse 

 called M.D. He now went steadily ahead, riding in and 

 winning a great many open races, and in 1884 won his first 

 Grand Military on Major Tidswell's Larva (5 yrs., 1 1 st. 7 lbs.) 

 at Sandown Park, beating eight others. 



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