218 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. 



on Warden for Mr. Abington, besides carrying off the 

 Aylesbury Open Handicap on Mr. Bentley's Novice. 



The following year he rode Cora Pearl for Sir W. 

 Milner against Lord Rosebery's The Fawn, Mr. Newton 

 up, and won by a neck. It was in 1869, too, that Mr. 

 Richardson won his first flat race, the One-Mile Welter 

 Cup, with his own horse Watteau, at Redbourne. One 

 of his best performances was the winning of the Orand 

 National Hunt Steeplechase for Mr. Henry Chaplin on 

 Schiedam ; and on Mr. Evans's Master Oliver he beat 

 (Captain Tempest a head in the Open Handicap Steeple- 

 chase at Daventry. 



The year 1871 found a long string of horses in train- 

 ing at Limber, some belonging to Captain Machell among 

 the number, for whom he won the Cambridge Handicap 

 Steeplechase on Keystone, and the West of Scotland 

 Steeplechase at Eglinton on the same horse. Among 

 other races that he won for Captain Machell were three on 

 Defence, namely, the Brocklesby Open, the Warwick Hunt, 

 and the Nottinghamshire Hunt. Another stirrup-leather 

 broke at the first fence when riding Lady Day in the 

 Open Handicap Steeplechase at Rothbury, in North- 

 umberland, but he managed to win in spite of it. Then 

 on Lord Calthorpe's Felix he won the Billesdon Coplow 

 Stake at Croxton Park, and Lord Aylesford's Tabernacle 

 carried him to victory in the Warwick Welter Handicap. 

 Among his other victories in 1871 were : the Corinthian 

 Handicap Plate at Ayr, on Captain Machell's Disturbance ; 

 the Hawkstone Welter Cup, for Mr. Ray, at Shrewsbury, 

 on Scylla, beating John Adams on Vanguard a head, with 

 Johnny Osborne on Infidel the same distance behind him ; 

 and the Grand Annual on Mr. Chaplin's Schiedam. 



No fewer than fifty-six victories fell to Mr. Richard- 

 son's prowess in 1872, including one of the best races he 

 ever rode, the Six-Furlong Summer Welter, round Tatten- 

 ham Corner, on the day following the Derby. He was 

 riding the late Lord Lonsdale's Bickerstaffe, and his 

 dash and boldness was never better displayed, while his 



