"THE LIVERPOOL" 



Simple, who was becoming almost as notable a standing 

 dish as Mr. Elmore's horse. Neither he nor Peter 

 Simple ever appears to have been dangerous, and the 

 race went to Lord Chesterfield's Vanguard, Tom Oliver 

 again in the saddle. One incident noted is that Mr. 

 Holman's Dragsman swerved at a fence and jumped 

 sideways over a gate, from which it may be inferred 

 that the course was not laid out with anything like the 

 directness known to the present and, indeed, the last 

 generation. There must have been a great deal of 

 latitude if jumping a gate were possible. 



1845-46 



If I discussed all the Liverpools the book would run 

 to unwieldy dimensions, and I can only touch upon a 

 comparatively few. A horse named Peter Simple made 

 his fifth appearance in 1845, and came near winning, 

 running second to Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's Cure-All, to 

 whom he was giving 7 lb. Next season he led for what 

 seems to have been a considerable distance, but dropped 

 out of it a long way from home, and, indeed, he does 

 not appear to have been much fancied, though at any rate 

 more so than the winner, Mr. Adams's Pioneer, a hope- 

 less outsider not quoted in the betting, said to have 

 looked rough in his coat and untrained, and ridden by 

 an absolutely unknown jockey. There is a statement 

 that the distance this year was " nearly five miles," so 



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