GREEN: YELLOW SLEEVES. BELT, AND CAP 



ing the spot it was quite evident that the flood had 

 extended to that corner of the fence, and each time 

 Frosty had taken ofl^ out of a regular bog. I think the 

 loss of this horse was the greatest blow I ever had 

 'chasing, not forgetting Comfit's fall in the National 

 when leading, when he broke his shoulder. Odd we 

 should lose both those horses at Liverpool, which I have 

 always considered my luckiest course ! " 



At the beginning of the century much was thought 

 of a big black gelding named Timothy Titus. Season 

 after season he was backed for the National, the fancy 

 for him being largely due to the circumstance that he 

 won the National Hunt Steeplechase at Cheltenham in 

 1904. He was sufficiently well bred, being a son of 

 the Gold Cup winner Timothy, and was much fancied, 

 starting at 5 to i, on a level with a mare named Miss 

 Clifden II., who was considered, and with reason, just 

 the sort of animal for this particular event. It has been 

 a peculiarity of the National Hunt that when a par- 

 ticularly hot favourite has been produced it has almost 

 invariably been beaten, and this was the case here, the 

 short odds of 7 to 2 being taken about Loch Lomond, 

 another animal of unimpeachable breeding, he having 

 been by Blairfinde. Mr. Bibby sent two this year, Billy 

 Balsam and Pinchbeck, both five-year-olds, ridden by 

 Mr. A. W. Wood and " Mr. Deer " respectively. Billy 

 Balsam was taken to be the better of the pair, neither, 

 however, being good enough to show up prominently. 



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