A History of Steeple-Chasing

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A History of Steeple-Chasing
Blew, William Charles Arlington, 1848- [from Old Catalog]
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This race is noteworthy for several reasons. In the first place the winner. Lord Coventry's Emblem, a thoroughbred mare by Teddington — Miss Batty, was bred in Wales by Mr. Holford in 1856, and in 1859, when a three-year-old, she ran thirteen times and won but once, the Revival Handicap at Cardiff, when the property of Digitized by Google 1 30 STEEPLECH ASING her breeder. After being trained for Mr. Holford by Saunders of Hednesford, Lord Coventry bought her and sent her to J. Golby at Northlea
...ch, the well-known trainer of jumpers, and afterwards to Weever, of Bourton.
Having fallen several times, she came to quite dread the sight of a fence and could never be induced to jump.
She did not show temper when asked to leap, but simply appeared to be in a high state of nervousness.
One day Weever s patience was fairly exhausted, and picking a decent stick out of some hedge cuttings, he ''helped her over" a small fence. After two or three rough-and-tumble lessons of this sort Emblem made unwilling attempts to jump, and was taken out with the Cotswold and Heythrop Hounds.


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