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across St. George's. Channel. Here he was 

 put into training, and quickly developed into 

 a really great horse, winning the Liverpool, 

 in the experienced hands of Mr. Alec Good- 

 man, from twenty - nine opponents. The 

 following settling day Mr. Studd took a 

 sum out of the Ring which fairly " knocked 

 the stufEnfij " out of two well-known book- 

 makers at the least. 



On the occasion of his first victory The 

 Lamb — one of the very best of Liverpool 

 winners — was steered by Mr. George Ede, 

 perhaps as fine a horseman as ever lived, 

 who fairly outrode the jockey of Pearl Diver, 

 though it was a ti2i;ht fit at the last for 

 supremacy. 



Mr. Ede was, in many respects, a most 

 remarkable man, and from an old friend of 

 mine, in Northamptonshire (where Mr. Ede 

 was studying as a farm pupil in his early 

 days), for whom he rode and won many 

 steeplechases, I have learnt some interesting 

 details of his career. On the farm in ques- 

 tion the future gentleman rider first met 



