Downstream

the Richmond Club’s
president was now a JP – he
was knighted a few years
later – and another river race
was launched, a two-and-a-
half-mile scratch race for the
Holbein Shield, between
Teddington and Richmond
locks, ‘on the ebb tide’.
The three river races soon
acquired formal titles. The
Majority Challenge Cup for
the half-mile was inaugurated
in 1903 to commemorate the