GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



and cantered home without the semblance of an effort, 

 the verdict being forty lengths. Visitors to the Liver- 

 pool do not hesitate to give vent to enthusiasm when the 

 occasion seems to justify it. The manner in which, in 

 the words of a popular flat race jockey who was present, 

 Cloister had "simply jumped his opponents silly" sent 

 the crowd wild with delight. He was by no means a 

 good-looking horse, but invincibly courageous, no dis- 

 tance was too far for him, he was a superlative fencer, 

 and one of the most amiable creatures imaginable. 

 After the race we went to see him in his box, where he 

 enjoyed a hearty feed whilst his owner leaned against 

 his hind quarters and expatiated on his merits. 



Cloister was unable to run in 1894, and elsewhere I 

 have described at length the mysterious fact that certain 

 members of the ring knew there was something wrong 

 with the horse at a time when his owner assuredly had 

 not the slightest suspicion of the fact. It was his last 

 appearance at Aintree, and the question must always 

 remain whether he or Manifesto was the better, as also 

 whether there has ever been a better still ? Manifesto 

 made his first appearance, then the property of Mr. 

 H. M. Dyas, in 1895, and finished fourth to Wild Man 

 from Borneo. It is recorded that in the following year, 

 1896, Manifesto fell, a statement strenuously denied by 

 my friend Mr. J. G. Bulteel, for whom he did such 

 admirable service at a later period. Mr. Bulteel declares 

 that the horse never " fell " at Liverpool on this or any 



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