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next year did no better in the hands of Captain 

 Wentworth Hope Johnstone at Rugby. Later in the 

 season he eave us a bit of his old form on the flat at 

 Ascot by winning the Visitors' Handicap, although 

 in the Oueen Plate he made no fight of it with 

 Corisande and Dutch Skater. But Fervacques 

 was not Captain Hope Johnstone's only Grand Prix 

 association in the chief military steeplechase, for 

 the second of his three wins was landed for the 

 present Viscount Downe on Earl Marshall, who 

 was a son of The Earl who won the Paris Grand 

 Prix in 1868. He, like Fervacques the year pre- 

 viously, was ridden by Fordham, who, the records 

 say, " won by a nose " after a dead-heat with 

 Patricien. Of these two Grand Prix winners, 

 The Earl by Young Melborne, it will be remem- 

 bered, played no mean part in connection with 

 "the Spider and the Fly" 1868 classic scandal. 

 It may be added that, after winning the Grand 

 Prix, Fervacques some three weeks later came 

 over to Eno-land and won the Northumberland 

 Plate, a race in which his sire Underhand had 

 been thrice in succession successful. All the 

 above is here eiven because some of the modern 

 school are apt to think the horses of the Grand 

 Military were nearly all of the hunter and charger 

 type. 



Mention has been made above of Major-General 



