It was at Hexham five years later, May 5, 1910, that Jim, riding Calliope, pipped top-class amateur rider Captain Percy Bewicke in the Tynedale National Hunt Flat Race. Captain Bewicke, who was riding the 7-1 on certainty Herbert Vincent, wore an immaculate white hunting stock which restricted the movement of his head. Jim drove his mount up on Captain Bewicke’s blind side and beat him by a head. The captain was furious. When he got back to the weighing room he threw his saddle down and swore he would never ride in another race. He stayed true to his word and never did. Later that month Herbert Vincent won by eight lengths at Uttoxeter ridden by Bob Chadwick.