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S TEEPLE- CHA SING. 



on the flat. As chasers, maiiy ot them that have been looked 

 on as T.Y.C. animals stay with ease for three miles or more — 

 there are several winners over the four-and-a-half miles of the 

 Grand National course, indeed — with a turn of speed for the 

 run home ; and over a country such horses frequently carry 

 with success twice the weight they have been accustomed to 

 gallop under for five or six fuiiongs. 



Formerly the hunting-lield was the place where chasers 



A chaser. 



were sought, and that chasers were hunters was so generally 

 understood that we find the writer ' Cecil ' expressing doubts 

 as to whether Lottery was an agreeable horse to ride to hounds, 

 with a significance which implies that keeping Lottery exclu- 

 sively for steeple-chasing was considered rather sharp practice.' 

 Superiority in the hunting-field seemed to give promise of 

 superiority between the flags ; but this is no longer the case. 



' Lottery was, however, often hunted by Jem A^ason during his steeple- 

 chase career and long afterwards. We have seen the pair out with tlie 

 Queen'b staghounds twenty limes or more. — Ed. 



