GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



be remarked, the usual order which had been observed 

 for many seasons was upset. Instead of a start on the 

 flat at Lincoln there were meetings previously at 

 Kempton, Birmingham, Newcastle, Leicester, Catterick 

 and Alexandra Park, also under National Hunt Rules at 

 Manchester, which had always hitherto come after Liver- 

 pool ; this time it was placed prior to the fixture which 

 had for so long divided the week with Lincoln. The 

 stable then presided over by Mr. H. Ussher, whose 

 name occurs on a previous page as a wearer of the green, 

 yellow belt and sleeves, was a power in the land, and 

 by wellnigh universal consent Ballyhackle, a son of 

 Hackler and Ballymacarney — afterwards to be better 

 known as a dam of steeplechasers — was made a warm 

 favourite, his trainer riding. Ballyhackle stood at 5 to 

 I, four others, Covertcoat, Carsey, Highbridge and 

 Wavelet on the same mark at 100 to 9. 



Thowl Pin was by no means despised. Though he 

 had done little in his three previous races it was not 

 forgotten that he had jumped the course on his first 

 essay, a forcible recommendation ; and moreover he had 

 conveyed the impression that he was a Liverpool horse. 

 Lutteur IIL was not sent, but France was represented 

 by the grey Trianon IIL, not looked on as dangerous. 

 Piggott was no longer retained by Sir Charles, Covert- 

 coat being entrusted to Percy Woodland, who won at 

 his ease by so much that the Judge made no attempt to 

 go into details, and gave it as " a distance," Irish Mail, 



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