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Durham in the Ebor Plate at the York Spring meeting 

 in 1880, when he won cleverly by half a length. 



Mr. Gr. E. Davy, who used to live at Thoresway, was 

 another good man both to hounds and over regulation 

 fences. He won the Brocklesby heavy-weight Point-to- 

 Point in 1892 on his black horse Emanuel, as well as a 

 great number of races under National Hunt Rules.* But 

 his name will always l)e most closely associated with Sultan, 

 on whom he won several races both before and after he sold 

 him to Mr. J. M. Richardson. Mr. Richardson afterwards 

 sold him to Mr. Cyril Flower, M.P., now Lord Battersea, and 

 it was on this horse that Mr. Flower won the first House 

 of Commons Point-to-Point. Mr. Flower had intended 

 riding a young horse in the race, and had merely hacked 

 Sultan (rechristened Home Rule) down to the post. How- 

 ever, his groom told him the youngster could not possibly 

 negotiate an awkward " double," so Mr. Flower decided 

 to keep on the old horse, who won at his ease. But as 

 the race was for maiden horses he was of course disqualified. 

 Some one wired to Mr. Gladstone, " Home Rule has won ! " 

 but a little later came the inevitable, " Home Rule is 

 disqualified ! " Mr. Davy rode for a number of diff'erent 

 owners, among whom were Messrs. R. Martin, F. Cart- 

 wright, G. Peck, F. Bennett, J. Maunsell Richardson, J. J. 

 Clark, J. Quickfall, J. Tateson, F. R. Marshall, F. Howard, 

 W. H. Clark, Lord Heneage, R. Faulding, M. Grundy, 

 J. W. Davy, W. Elsey, C. L Parr, S. Allenby, E. Hibbitt, 

 J. Walter, E. Spenser, S. T. Mendel, E. H. Marfleet, J. 

 Bygott, and N. Melbourne. 



The best horses he ever owned himself were Sultan, 

 Master Joyce, Gadfly, Violet, and Novice, and his first 

 mount was at Brocklesby in 1874, when he won a four- 

 mile race on Novice, beating Due de Beaufort, Legacy, 

 and others. The hardest race he ever rode was also at 

 Brocklesby, three years later, when Mr. MacVicar, on 

 Orange Peel, beat him on The Rol^ber by a head ; and 



* The light-weight race was won by Mr. T. Kirkby's Vixen, Mr. J. Drakes, 

 jun., in the saddle. 



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