"THE LIVERPOOL" 



present shelving, it may have been awkward in the days 

 of Abd-el-Kader — and Miss Mowbray, who won in 

 1852 — for we often see horses land with a splash. If 

 they do not clear the water they need not necessarily fall ; 

 in the fifties, so far as can be made out, a fall must have 

 been wellnigh inevitable if a horse jumped short. 



1853-4 

 In 1853 Peter Simple, lost. 10 lb., Tom Oliver up, 

 won for the second time; time 10 mins, 27 H seconds. 

 We find him again, as also Abd-el-Kader, in 1854, when 

 the race went to the favourite, Bourton, a half-bred, a 

 description appended to most of the winners about this 

 period. 



1855 



Evidently the class varied considerably. In 1855 it 

 was said to have been exceedingly poor, and the only 

 circumstance I see to note is that Sam Darling, a grand- 

 father of the Beckhampton trainer who has had no 

 superior in his craft within living memory, rode Miss 

 Mowbray, second favourite at 4 to i. She broke both 

 her neck and her back, threw her jockey several yards, 

 and he remained unconscious till aroused by a rap on 

 the back of the neck from one of the other horses who 

 galloped over him. 



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