SOME LIVERPOOLS, INCLUDING KIRKLAND'S 



Liverpool Spring Meeting, after running second to a 

 really good horse in Glen Royal for the National Hunt 

 Steeplechase, which that year took place at Hurst Park. 

 Pawnbroker's credentials were considered so good that 

 odds of 4 to I were laid on him, but Zodiac beat him 

 in a canter by twelve lengths. It was certainly no mean 

 performance to defeat an animal who had the enormous 

 advantage of having already successfully surmounted 

 the Aintree fences. 



As a five-year-old Zodiac was less successful. It does 

 not necessarily follow that a placed horse is unlucky, as 

 some persons are inclined to hold. At the same time 

 there is no doubt it often happens that the luck of the 

 race makes all the difference. Zodiac — to be punctilious 

 it should be remarked that he was still a four-year-old, 

 for I am dealing with the 27 th December — was second 

 to a son of the famous Ascetic named St. Pat. He 

 was second again, this time for a hurdle race, beaten 

 three parts of a length, at the Tenby Hunt, and yet 

 once more second at Liverpool for the Stanley Five- 

 Year-Old Steeplechase, a somewhat curious contest. 

 There were four starters, odds of 1 1 to 8 were laid on 

 Uncle Jack II., ridden by the Lewes trainer Escott, 

 Zodiac was the outsider of the four. He and Uncle 

 Jack both fell. The other two, Serapion and Moyfen- 

 rath, stood up, but nevertheless the two fallers finished 

 first and second. Evidently it took E. Morgan a long 

 time to recover his saddle, for he was beaten a distance ; 



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