SOME MORE NATIONALS, INCLUDING GLENSIDE'S 



him at Haydock Park on the same day as that on which 

 Lutteur III. had beaten his grey countryman. The 

 fancy for Caubeen was justified for reasons already 

 stated. Then again Carsey had shown himself dis- 

 tinctly a Liverpool horse. This it will be seen looked 

 like a National which would take a great deal of 

 winning, and there was the previous year's victor, 

 Jenkinstown, with that fine horseman Percy Woodland 

 to make the best of him. It seems to have been the 

 custom of the Liverpool handicapper to penalise a horse, 

 so to speak, that is to say to raise his weight, something 

 like a stone, and Jenkinstown had i61b. more to carry 

 than the weight he had borne twelve months before. 



Glenside had been a cheap purchase. Colonel Lort- 

 Phillips had bought him for the partnership after he 

 had won a small race at Tenby, giving no more than 

 ;^i50. This low price was doubtless due in a great 

 measure to the fact that the horse had only one eye, the 

 disadvantage of which need not be emphasised. The 

 style in which he had jumped the Tenby banks con- 

 vinced the partners that he could be trusted to jump 

 Liverpool, indeed he was regarded not only by his 

 owner and his trainer, but by shrewd judges with experi- 

 ence of what was required, as an ideal Liverpool horse, 

 and a strong impression existed that had he not jumped 

 his jockey off the previous season — for that is what it 

 came to — he could hardly have been beaten. Glenside 

 was a son of St. Oris and Kilwinnet, his sire it need 



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