SOME LIVERPOOLS, INCLUDING KIRKLAND'S 



Girl, Shipshape, Sunny Shower, Atheling's Prize, and 

 another competitor was Drumcree, who was to win the 

 National three years later. What might have happened 

 to Zodiac had good fortune been with him cannot be 

 said, as he came to grief in the country. 



It was thought desirable to do some of Zodiac's 

 National training in public. Early in the February of 

 1901 he was sharpened up in the Visitors' Handicap 

 at Tenby Hunt, which he won comfortably, and next 

 day he scored, though with nothing to spare, in the 

 Stewards' Handicap Steeplechase. At the Carmarthen- 

 shire Meeting he resumed his old habit of running 

 second, this time for the Tally Ho Steeplechase, when, 

 however, he was endeavouring to give the winner Ever- 

 leigh 141b., and he was once more second at Hurst Park 

 for the Riverside Handicap Steeplechase, beaten half a 

 length by a good steeplechase horse named Levanter, 

 but finishing many lengths in front of another distinctly 

 useful animal in Nepcote. Then came the Liverpool. 

 In my reminiscences I have dealt with this Liver- 

 pool of 1 90 1, for the reason that I had a special 

 interest in it. I was at that time managing the 

 horses of a nephew, Captain H. A. Johnstone of the 

 7th Hussars. For him I had been lucky enough to 

 buy at the sale of horses belonging to my friend Harry 

 McCalmont an animal named Cushendun, who had done 

 remarkably well, and was considered by his trainer, Mr. 

 Gwyn Saunders-Davies, who was also here and frequently 



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