Gentlemen Riders 



with — never won a race except when ridden by Sir Cuthbert 

 Slade. 



-^sop, who was by Chippendale out of Fable and the 

 property of Captain Michael Hughes, 2nd Life Guards, was a 

 brilliant performer over a country, and Sir Cuthbert and he, 

 always a pair hard to beat, were especially so in the spring of 

 1892, when they won six times in succession. In the same 

 year, they made their first attempt to win the Grand Military, 

 but could only finish fourth. The following year they were 

 second to the Midshipmite, who with 13 st. 7 lbs. on his back 

 succeeded on landing the odds laid on him in gallant style. 



Twelve months later and it was ^sop's turn, for though 

 the Midshipmite, in spite of his heavier weight, actually led 

 over the last fence, the other beat him for speed on the flat 

 and Avon, though with little to spare. 



Another victory was the Household Brigade Handicap in 

 1898, on Corsbie. In 1895 Sir Cuthbert rode ^sop to 

 Victory in the Household Brigade Cup, a race he had won four 

 years previously on St. Valentine, a chestnut horse by Lord 

 Gough, out of Traveller's Joy, in which he and Colonel the 

 Hon. W. Lawson, D.S.O., were partners. Sir Cuthbert, in all, 

 won quite ten steeplechases on this horse. At the Grand 

 Military meeting in the same year he won a race on Elliman, 

 whose first performance it was in public over a country. This 

 horse, it will be remembered, finished third In the Liverpool, 

 four years later. In 1897, at the same meeting, he won the 

 Grand Military Handicap Steeplechase on Brawl. In 1893, 

 when the National Hunt Steeplechase was run at Sandown 

 Park, Sir Cuthbert had the ride on Van der Berg, a son of 

 Dutch Skater, who justified his good reputation in the hunting- 

 field by winning easily from Lord of the Valley, the property 

 of Mr. Arthur Yates and the mount of Mr. G. B. Milne. Two 



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