Royal Ascot 



early sixties; the 

 first race in which 

 he thus won dis- 

 tinction being the 

 Windsor Drag 

 Hunt Steeple- 

 chase, at the 

 Chertsey Meeting 

 of 1S63. His 

 mount on this 

 occasion was Mr. 

 R. Cooper's mare, 

 Stays, Starting 

 at 10 to I, Stays 

 won by a neck 

 f r o m Captain 

 Rowley's Buffalo 

 Girl, which 

 Colonel Bulkeley 

 had trained. After 

 a time he rode in 

 his own name in Ireland and Wales as well as in Eno^land. 

 Colonel Bulkelev is also Steward of the National Hunt 

 Committee. 



Another good sportsman is Colonel Van de Weyer, 

 who was for many years Master of the old Berkshire 

 Hunt. Colonel Van de Weyer, of New Lodge, Berks, 

 was born in 1839, and is the oldest surviving son of His 

 Excellency Sylvian V'an de Weyer, who was Belgian 

 Envoy in England in 1831. He was educated at Eton, 

 and married in 1868 Lady Emily Georgina, daughter of 



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