SOME LIVERPOOLS, INCLUDING KIRKLAND'S 



having taken some trouble to get down to the weight, 

 list. 2 lb., and he had his work for nothing. The 

 snow balled in the horse's feet and he slipped up in the 

 middle of the field. Mr. Davies always maintained 

 that with a fair share of luck Cushendun would probably 

 have won ; at least he should have beaten the winner, 

 Grudon, at the weights, but Grudon was one of the few 

 who escaped mishap." 



For this Liverpool Levanter, whose name has just 

 been mentioned, was favourite at 5 to i. He was the 

 property of Major J. D. Edwards, ridden by F. Mason, 

 and certainly not over-weighted with 9 st. 131b. Mr. 

 C. Atherton Brown's Barsac, who has also come into 

 this story, another of the several with 9 st. 13 lb., was 

 second favourite at 100 to 14, Mr. H. M. Ripley in the 

 saddle, and Grudon wound up at no more than 9 to i, 

 Mr. Bletsoe's old horse carrying 10 st., and being ridden 

 by Arthur Nightingall, who had won on Why Not in 

 1894, on Ilex in 1890, and was an extraordinarily fine 

 horseman. Covert Hack, who carried off the Conyng- 

 ham Cup on no fewer than three occasions, and a number 

 of other races, but who apparently could not quite stay 

 the Liverpool course, was backed at 10 to i, as was 

 Drumcree, but little hope was entertained of Zodiac. 

 He was one of the outsiders of the four and twenty 

 who went to the post. It would be impossible to give 

 a description of the race, as well nigh all the time the 

 horses were out of sight in consequence of the snow- 



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