Gentlemen Riders 



struggle. On the top of this came his bad fall at the V.W.H. 

 meeting, on the same day that poor Mr. Ralph Faber met his 

 death. 



Now, however, that he is pronounced out of danger, and in 

 a fair way of recovery, we shall look forward with confidence to 

 the appearance of Captain Collis in the Grand National field 

 next March with, it is to be hoped, a better mount under him 

 than on the last occasion. 



Born on January 13th, 1875, the subject of our sketch, his 

 education over, joined the 6th Dragoon Guards, with which 

 regiment he served with distinction in the Boer War, being 

 present at Kimberley, Paardeberg (where he was dangerously 

 wounded), and Zand River, for which he received the D.S.O. 

 and South African war medal, with three clasps. 



Mr. PAYNE 



" When I was a schoolboy aged ten, 

 Mighty little Greek I knew." 



Old Song. 



Whether, when at the same tender age as the young 

 gentleman in the once popular song descriptive of schoolboy 

 life, the two first lines of which are quoted above, he was as 

 ignorant as the others on the subject of the Dead Languages, 

 is of course a matter of conjecture. On the other hand there 

 can be no question that had the difficult art of riding over 

 a country formed a part of his curriculum Master Dick Payne 

 must inevitably have been as firmly established at the top of 

 his class, as he has been ever since in the saddle, the conclusion 



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