Conclusion 



moment, being told by his groom that the latter would find the 

 country too big for him, elected to stick to Sultan (rechristened 

 Home Rule), on whom he had hacked down to the post, 

 with the result that he won at his ease, to be disqualified 

 immediately after, as the race was for maiden horses only. Mr. 

 Collins (" Nimrod Junior"), in his interesting "History of the 

 Brocklesby Hounds," after discussing the incident, adds, " Some 

 one wired to Mr. Gladstone, ^ Home Rule has won!* but a 

 little later came the inevitable, * Home Rule is disqualified ! ' " 



Captain Holyoake, who won the National Hunt Steeple- 

 chase on Red Nob, was another good horseman, whilst Mr. 

 J. R. Milne was far above the average. A good and plucky 

 horseman, too, was Mr. Charles Thompson, who sported Colonel 

 North's colours with great success on all occasions, and won the 

 National Hunt Steeplechase in 1889, when it was run at 

 Cardiff, on Nap, the only four-year-old in the race, who though 

 little fancied, won easily by twenty lengths. 



Then there was Mr. E. P. Gundry, who, besides innu- 

 merable other races, won the National Hunt Steeplechase 

 run at Gatwick in 1898, on Real Shamrock, beating Royal 

 Tyrant by a head on the post. 



A prominent horseman, too, in the seventies, especially in the 

 Principality, was the redoubtable Jack Goodwin, and the same 

 remark applies later on to Mr. A. W. Wood, who was a great 

 favourite at the principal Welsh meetings, such as Cardiff, 

 Monmouth, and Abergavenny, at each of which his mounts 

 were always at a premium. 



In 1900 he rode in a hundred and eighty races, of which 

 he won thirty-five, amongst them the Nottingham Handicap 

 Steeplechase on Ledessan, whilst the following year he won 

 forty-eight of the two hundred and twenty-six races he rode in. 



Mr. Willy H. Moore, too, a splendid horseman, as might be 



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