Steeplechase Riding 223 



fell at the regulation ditch when running 

 at Four Oaks Park (Birmingham), killing Sly 

 who rode him, one of the best conducted 

 young men in his profession. If my memory 

 serves me the horse belonged to Mr. H. 

 Barclay (the owner of the great Bendigo), and 

 it was on AVoodhouse, another of the popular 

 brewer's animals, that poor young George 

 Brown — barely twenty years of age — met 

 with his fatal accident this summer (1895) 

 at Brighton. Willy Macdonald, on the flat, 

 and Sensier, in a hurdle race, were both 

 killed through their horses falling and leav- 

 ing them defenceless on the ground for others 

 to gallop over. Mr. Lamport, of the Royal 

 Artillery, was killed whilst riding a gallop 

 over fences at Epsom four or five years ago, 

 and some time before that Sam Daniels lost 

 his life in schooling the hurdle-racer Thunder. 

 As to fatal accidents in the hunting- field, 

 there is nothing in the shape of a record, 

 however rough, to refer to. But if there 

 were, I venture to think that they are very 

 few, especially considering the vast number 



