SOME LIVERPOOLS, INCLUDING KIRKLAND'S 



Mr. Foxhall Keene's Prophet III., a 



10 St, fell J. Dillon - 



Mr. J, M. Kerne's Johnston Lad, a. 



9 St. 12 lbs. fell E. DriscoU 



Winner trained by Costello (really by Mr. Withington, Costello 

 was head lad). 



6/1 agst. Kirkland, 8/i Tom West, Springbok, lo/i Johnstown 

 Lad, 100/8 Paddy Maher, 100/7 Roman Law, Mount Prospect's 

 Fortune, Seisdon Prince, Extravagance, Lawyer IIL, 25/1 Mattie 

 Macgregor, Lara, 33/1 Flaxman, 66/1 Rubio and others. 



Won by 10 lengths, 6 lengths second and third. Time, 

 10 min. 4| sees. 



Kirkland's term of useful work was by no means 

 over. It has always been Mr. Bibby's custom to send 

 suitable 'chasers, when they have been withdrawn from 

 racing, into his hunting stable. As a rule, as most 

 readers are doubtless aware, ex-'chasers do not make the 

 most comfortable of mounts with hounds. It is their 

 habit to rush their fences, and indeed it would be 

 amazing were this otherwise, seeing that the lesson 

 chiefly taught them has been to lose no time at their 

 jumps. But Kirkland proved extraordinarily amenable. 

 Mr. Bibby took him for his own riding. Truly it seems 

 a gorgeous thing to ride the winner of the Liverpool out 

 hunting, and it might be imagined that, always sup- 

 posing that hounds were fast enough and with a straight 

 necked fox before them, a Master so mounted would be 

 out by himself. (It might not be an easy task to mount 

 the huntsman in these circumstances!) But Kirkland 



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