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3 unusual facts about Dick Christian


Dick Christian

"Only Dick Christian," answers Lord Forester, "& it is nothing new to him." "But he'll be drowned", exclaims Lord Kinnaird.

Christian also played a prominent, if comical role in the famous set of prints of the Quorn Hunt made by Rudolph Ackermann in 1835: "Who is that under his horse in the brook?" enquires that good sportsman & fine rider, Mr Green of Rolleston, whose noted old mare had just skimmed over the water like a swallow on a summer's evening.

Among the famous races in which Dick Christian took part was the 1826 steeplechase between Horatio Ross’s horse Clinker and George Osbaldeston’s Clasher.



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