SOME MORE NATIONALS, INCLUDING GLENSIDE'S 



Such animals are rare and the more to be appreciated 

 when found. 



Of The Babe I have already spoken, Mr. Bibby's 

 other runner in 191 5 being Thowl Pin once more. At 

 Liverpool it need hardly be said that there is always a 

 chance for a horse who can stay the distance and jump 

 the fences. In order to win, however, as a rule some- 

 thing more than Thowl Pin possessed in the matter of 

 pace is requisite, and probably on the whole he did as 

 well as could reasonably have been expected in finishing 

 fifth, giving a couple of pounds to the winner Lady 

 Nelson's Ally Sloper. It is not very often that we have 

 seen much of a finish for a National. Here, however, 

 Jacobus made a fight for it, and giving the winner 8 lb. 

 was only beaten a couple of lengths, third place being 

 filled by Father Confessor, a son of St. Gris, who had 

 looked dangerous when approaching the last fence, the 

 more so as one expected a son of his sire to produce a 

 turn of speed. A useful colt called Alfred Noble was 

 fourth just in front of Thowl Pin. A Colonial bred 

 animal called Bullawarra figured in this race. What- 

 ever else he did he was certain not to fall, his admirers 

 protested, but perhaps they did not realise what the 

 Aintree fences were, for he was one of an unusually 

 small number who this season came to grief. Ilston 

 did so ; I have previously noted that it was his habit, 

 and the jumps were also too much for Lord Marcus 

 and Balscadden. The Babe completed the course, 



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