Celebrities of the Past Thirty Years i8i 



have a positive genius for losing myself in 

 any country, it struck me that to order my 

 hack and gallop back across the downs before 

 it got either darker or more misty would be 

 my wisest course, so with a farewell to my 

 host off I set, and after missing the track 

 twice, and riding plump into a straw-rick in 

 the sea-fog, reached Eastbourne in safety 



again. 



Cathal, who ran second to the "Wild Man" 

 this year for the Liverpool, commenced his 

 jumping career, in a very mild way, in Ireland. 

 He ran four times, and won thrice, in his 

 initial season, but these were only " twenty- 

 five pounder" stakes. Fanatic beat him 

 very easily, and the late Duke of Hamilton's 

 horse is hardly to be described as a flyer. 

 The following year he came to grief whilst 

 running in the Conyngham Cup, after win- 

 ning the Dunboyne Plate at the Ward Union 

 meeting. In November 1894 ^^ made his 

 bow to an English public at Aintree, and won 

 the Valentine Steeplechase very easily from 

 Ballyohara, giving away 7 lbs., and was sold 



