Gentlemen Riders 



Our British Tommy, too, is a sportsman at heart, and has a 

 great respect for the sporting officer. Such names as General 

 R. G. Broadwood, General Burn-Murdoch, Lord Minto, 

 Major Owen, and others, will prove my assertion. No man 

 can hope to become a proficient jockey unless he works hard, 

 rides gallops on all sorts of horses, and takes his chance of 

 grief. The risks are great, no doubt ; but — 



" What game was ever worth a rap, for a rational man to play, 

 In which no accident, no mishap, could possibly find its way ? " 



MAJOR J. A. ORR-EWING 



The 1 6th Lancers, from time immemorial, had a reputation for 

 being one of the most sporting regiments in the Service, and 

 it is certain that few of its representatives have done it more 

 credit on our race-courses than the gallant officer whose all-too- 

 premature death in action during the Boer War was not only 

 a source of genuine grief to his many friends both in and out of 

 the Army, but a distinct loss to the Service of which he was so 

 bright an ornament. 



The third son of the late Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, the sub- 

 ject of our memoir was born on February 22, 1857, and received 

 his education at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, from 

 whence he passed direct into Sandhurst, where his brother. 

 Captain John Orr-Ewing, the owner of Thrush and other good 

 horses, and himself a very good horseman, was already located ; 

 afterwards joining the i6th Lancers, from which date his race- 

 riding career may be said to have commenced in earnest. 



Born in the saddle, as the saying is, and keen to a degree, 



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