SOME LIVERPOOLS, INCLUDING KIRKLAND'S 



had carried lost. 91b. when he won, was this time 

 elevated to I2st. 7 lb., an advance of very nearly 2 St., 

 and nevertheless shared favouritism with Red Lad, who 

 had followed him home the previous season and was now 

 in receipt of 18 lb. instead of the 7 lb. which had 

 separated them twelve months before. Timothy Titus 

 was again prominent in the market, and Drumcree, 

 victorious in 1903 and now thirteen years old, was 

 allowed to take his chance. 



There were rumours in favour of a seven-year-old 

 named Eremon, a son of Thurles and Daisy, belonging 

 to Mr. Stanley Howard, a name not very familiar to 

 racegoers, but trained by Coulthwaite, whose name was 

 very familiar indeed as a master of his art, with, it is 

 understood, some original ideas of training which suc- 

 ceeded in practice. Eremon had not done much up to 

 that time ; still he had won at Newbury, Hooton and 

 the Vale of White Horse. Prior to his appearance at 

 Liverpool he had been second for a ;^ioo race at San- 

 down, second again at Birmingham, not particularly 

 brilliant credentials, but he was nevertheless backed at 

 Liverpool at as little as 8 to i, and as it presently 

 appeared with excellent reason. Ridden by A. Newey, 

 Eremon went to the front as soon as the flag fell, and 

 raced to the first fence with such speed that Mr. T. G. 

 Arthur's Kilts, galloping with him, made a mistake and 

 broke his neck. At the next fence Prince Hatzfeldt's 

 Rathvale, who was not without supporters, blundered 



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