SOME LIVERPOOLS. INCLUDING KIRKLAND'S 



favourite was down. John M.P., it was afterwards 

 stated, had gone at the jump at such a tremendous pace 

 that he became unbalanced, and getting his forelegs into 

 the bank tumbled over the wing. Here too the rider- 

 less Dathi ran into Mr. Calverley Bewick's Kiora and 

 knocked him over. It might be supposed that this was 

 helping to clear the way for Comfit, but disaster was 

 supervening. He fell at Valentine's Brook, Mr. H. 

 Buckley's Roman Law tumbling over him, and shortly 

 afterwards Mr. Percy Whitaker, on another of Prince 

 Hatzfeldt's trio, Dearslayer, broke a stirrup-leather and 

 pulled up. 



Timothy Titus, after jumping the water and going 

 off into the country in a style which flattered his 

 friends, came down at the fence by the canal, and soon 

 the race was reduced to a quartet, Prince Hatzfeldt's 

 Ascetic's Silver, who indeed had practically won at 

 the last fence, Mr. E. M. Lucas's Red Lad, Mr. B. W. 

 Parr's Aunt May, a daughter of Ascetic, ridden by Mr. 

 H. S. Persse, the present Stockbridge trainer, and Mr. 

 J. W. Phillips' Crautacaun. Ascetic's Silver scored by 

 ten lengths. The winner was a big lengthy chestnut 

 horse, to whom some time before Lord Coventry had 

 taken a fancy. There was a question of his satisfying 

 the veterinary surgeon, however, and this resulted in a 

 refusal to pass the horse as sound — unfortunately for the 

 gallant sportsman who had carried off the great event 

 more than forty years previously. I have a very dis- 



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