SOME LIVERPOOLS. INCLUDING KIRKLAND'S 



primarily a Liverpool horse, though on this occasion he 

 failed to make much show, and it was at Warwick again, 

 in the Handicap Steeplechase, that he came to the front 

 for the second time, prior to his first essay in the 

 National, where he wore Mr. Bibby's second colours. 

 Frank Hartigan, who rode him, declares that he jumped 

 so big at each of the four or five fences he encountered 

 before he fell that any one jump would just about have 

 cleared the whole lot put together! In such a race as 

 the Liverpool the actual return of the betting often 

 signifies little, except in the case of those chiefly in 

 request. Thus, Comfit was one of four who started at 

 22 to I, and there were likewise four who started at 

 25 to I ; but many of their backers doubtless took very 

 much shorter odds, and quite possibly a few had found 

 bookmakers to lay longer ones. What it meant was that 

 Comfit was deemed likely tO' get over the course if luck 

 with with him, and though not expected to win, might 

 conceivably do so. 



1904. GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE (Handicap) 

 of £2525 (inc. a trophy value £106) ; Grand National 

 Course, about 4 miles 856 yds. 

 Mr. Spencer Gollan's Moifaa, by Natator, 



a. ID St. 7 lbs. Birch i 



Mr. F. Bibby's Kirkland, a. 10 st. 10 lbs. - F. Mason 2 



Mr. John Widger's The Gunner, a. 



10 St. 4 lbs. Mr. J. W. Widger 3 



Major J. D. Edwards' Shaun Aboo, 6 yrs. 



10 St. 1 lb. Waddington 4 



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