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backed favourite, and was expected to repeat his 

 great performance of the previous season, when he 

 made all the runnings and won by forty lengths in 

 the then record time of 9 min. 321- sec. The fall 

 referred to not only caused him to be scratched, but 

 created universal disappointment, and although 

 handicapped at 13 st. 3 lb. in 1 895-1 896, he ran in 

 neither year, and his career in the National really 

 ended with his 1893 popular and gallant victory. 



So far the Liverpool record tells us that no 

 horse has ever been thrice successful, but Cloister 

 with the least bit of luck might have accomplished 

 that feat, as prior to his victory, when carrying the 

 colours of Lord Dudley, he was second to Come 

 Away in 1891, and in a like position in 1892, when 

 Father O'Flynn and Captain " Roddy " Owen came 

 sailing home well ahead of him when in receipt of 

 no less than i st. 12 lb. 



Of the double winners Abd-el-Kader, 1 850-1 851, 

 owned by the late Mr Joseph Osborne, is the first 

 on record, his feat being sandwiched between the 

 two successes of Peter Simple, 1 849-1 853, a bay 

 horse by Patron even now oft confounded with the 

 grey Peter who earned the sympathy of all Lincoln- 

 shire on no fewer than half-a-dozen successive 

 occasions just prior to the bay Peter coming 

 successfully on the scene. The nearest the grey 

 Peter got in his six attempts was, firstly, in 1841, 



