My First Winners 



since the banks with furze on them wanted 

 plenty of doing, in expert phrase ; whilst, seeing 

 that the race was run in the spring, the 'chasers 

 were probably getting a little stale and overdone. 

 I have certainly sampled a great deal of the 

 Ludlow soil. 



Amongst my early winners of whom I cherish 

 a pleasant recollection was Lord M. Beresford's 

 " Marcellus," on whom I won the Stanley Five- 

 year - old Steeplechase at Aintree in 1893, and 

 I also trained him myself. Such dual triumphs 

 are exceptionally charming. 



Going back to 1890, I have a vivid memory 

 concerning the Mammoth Hunters' Steeple- 

 chase of fifteen hundred sovereigns ; it was a 

 very exciting race. I rode Mr T. G. Arthur's 

 " Innisfail," carrying 12 st. 5 lb., and my brother 

 William was on the back of "Cloister" (12 st. 

 12 lb.). We were esteemed as the two most 

 likely competitors, and such was our opinion ; 

 at any rate, we rode with desperate energy 

 against each other, neither conceding a point or 

 an inch at any stage of the journey, the result 

 being that a lightly-weighted runner — Duke of 

 Hamilton's " Weatherwitch " — got up in the last 

 stride and beat me by a head. " Cloister " was 



third, four lengths to the bad. I often think, in 



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