GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES. BELT, AND CAP 



1902 



Zodiac was again Mr. Bibby's representative in 1902, 

 and it must be confessed a forlorn hope, though he had 

 the bottoni weight, 9 st. 7 lb. It should be observed 

 incidentally that for a long period lost, was the mini- 

 mum that a horse could carry in the Liverpool. This 

 was altered in the year 1894, when the handicap 

 descended to 9 st. 7 lb. In 1893 Cloister had made so 

 light of his 12 St. 7 lb. that the authorities decided it was 

 necessary to make a wider gap between top and bottom 

 weight, and as to have exceeded 12 st. 7 lb. to any con- 

 siderable extent was practically out of the question, the 

 extension had to be made at the other end. 



In 1902 Mr. J. S. Morrison's Drumcree started an 

 equal favourite with Lord Coventry's Inquisitor at 6 to 

 I. Mr. Finch Mason's interesting volume, "Heroes 

 and Heroines of the Grand National," is unfortunately 

 by no means free from mistakes. To speak frankly, 

 errors are numerous, and one is made in the account of 

 this event. Drumree, a horse who belonged to the 

 Duke of Westminster, is muddled up with Drumcree 

 and quoted as favourite, whereas the Duke's animal 

 was backed at 10 to i, Mr. C. Atherton Brown's Barsac 

 intervening at 7 to i. The gallant old Manifesto, 

 burdened with i2st. 81b., resumed his familiar task, 

 Piggott in the saddle, and such was the confidence 

 reposed in him that though he is quoted at 100 to 6, in 



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