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fielder in the eleven. He also won the challenge racquet 

 from Cecil Clay, afterwards the Oxford crack, and he won 

 the long jump and the hurdles too. He carried off Messrs. 

 Angelo's prize for fencing, and his love of steeplechasing 

 was so early developed that, while still in statu pupillari, 

 he won a hundred-pound plate with a mare called Vienna, 

 ridden by Mr. George Nelson. Continuing his cricket at 

 Cambridge, he was in the eleven against Oxford in 1866, 

 1867, and 1868 ; and at Brighton he made 138, not out, for 

 the Jockeys against the Press, and 134 for the Quidnuncs 

 against Bullingdon. Other orood scores were 134 for the 

 Na Shuler Club against twenty-two of Louth, at Drumcar, 

 109 for the same club against the Viceregal Lodge, and 

 108 against Newbridge. Master of the 'Varsity Drag 

 Hounds in 1868, he won the challenge whip on his mare 

 Rival, and soon showed the promise of what he was des- 

 tined to become — one of the best gentlemen jockeys that 

 ever wore silk. " Mr. Roily " (then Lord Melgund, now 

 Earl of Minto and Governor-General of Canada), Lord 

 Aberdour, Mr. Cecil Legurd, and some of the Fitzwilliams, 

 were in his set at Cambridge, of course the most sport- 

 loving and the smartest at the 'Varsity. They lived at 

 French's, where Mr. Leopold de Rothschild had lodged. 

 In 1866 Mr. Richardson passed his Little Go, and he was 

 also chosen President of the Athena3um. 



Mr. Richardson's first race was at Huntingdon, in 

 1865, where he won a good race on a mare of his own by 

 Leopold, in spite of a broken stirrup-leather at the first 

 fence. The writer's father used to speak of a red-coat 

 race at Croydon, which Mr. Richardson won in most clever 

 style, and here, too, he broke a stirrup-leather at the first 

 fence. 



A complete history of Mr. Richardson's triumphs would 

 require a volume to itself, and so a brief reference only to 

 a few of his greatest victories may be made. 



In 1868 he won an Open Handicap Steeplechase on 

 his mare Proserpine, the Yarborough Cup for Mr. G. 

 Nelson on The Pet, and an Open Hunters' Steeplechase 



