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call at Aintree the year Cortolvin won for the 

 late Duke of Hamilton. Singularly enough, King 

 Arthur belonged to Major General Brabazon, at 

 the time of writing the oldest living winning 

 owner of the Grand Military Gold Cup. He is 

 yet proud to tell of the tall pedigree that son of 

 The Cure and Miss Agnes possessed, and very 

 justly so, seeing that Polly Agnes, the dam of 

 Lily Agnes, was King Arthur's own sister, and 

 Lily Agnes' alliance with Bend Or produced the 

 mighty Ormonde. 



In chases like the Grand Military one does not 

 expect to find high classed sires among its winners, 

 but in the horses figuring in the list below there is a 

 happy sequence worthy of mention — Lady Sherwell 

 by Oxford in 1875, Standard by Sterling in 1886, 

 and County Council by Isonomy in 1898. Again, if 

 its list of winners never contained a Liverpool 

 hero or heroine, it may be said that either before 

 or subsequent to their victories at Aintree such 

 horses as Cloister, the Soarer and Ambush II. 

 had been defeated in the Military Gold Cup. 



Few living can recall two occasions, first at 

 Windsor in 1871, and then at Rugby in 1872, when 

 actually a Grand Prix de Paris winner in Fervacques 

 was in the Military fighting. He, however, was a 

 failure, for at Windsor with Captain Magennis up he 

 jumped right into the middle of the brook, and the 



