SOME LIVERPOOLS, INCLUDING KIRKLAND'S 



and narrowly failing at Nottingham, before he resumed 

 his successful career at Cardiff, where he won each after- 

 noon of the meeting. Next at Warwick he won the 

 Autumn Handicap Steeplechase, the favourite here being 

 a good steeplechase horse named Dearslayer, ridden by 

 Frank Hartigan, backed at 2 to i ; but he could only 

 get third to the bearer of the green and yellow jacket. 

 Kirkland wound up the year by a visit to Leicester, 

 where there was an interesting fight for the Belvoir 

 Steeplechase. Mr. Bibby's horse was favourite at 5 to 

 4, Castleknock — in receipt of 3 lb. — ridden by Mr. 

 Persse, the present Stockbridge trainer, almost on the 

 same mark, backed at 6 to 4, and the two ran a dead 

 heat. 



As a six-year-old Kirkland was not kept very busy. 

 He led off by running second, beaten a neck, for a hurdle 

 race at Tenby, failed to justify his favouritism in the War- 

 wick Handicap Steeplechase on the day when Mr. Persse 

 took the National Hunt Chase on Marpessa, and after 

 an outing at Manchester on the first of April, where he 

 was third for the Easter Handicap Steeplechase, nothing 

 more was seen of him till November, when he gave 

 strong support to the belief that it was no exaggeration 

 to regard him as a real Liverpool horse. For the Grand 

 Sefton Steeplechase that November Venetian Monk, a 

 six-year-old who had enjoyed a remarkably brilliant 

 career in Ireland, started favourite, ridden by Mr. J. W. 

 Widger, who had carried off the Liverpool of 1895 on 



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