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between Deaf Burke and Simon Ijyrne ; the locus in 

 quo was No Man's Land, of race-course and steeple- 

 chase celebrity, and Coleman gave twenty-five pounds 

 to the stakes. With his usual keen eye to business 

 Coleman erected his grand stand on one side of the 

 ring, and had the pleasure of seeing it crammed with 

 spectators at a guinea a head. Simon Byrne died at 

 St. Albans a few days after the battle, and the coroner's 

 jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter against Burke, 

 the seconds, umpires, and referee. 



The old steeplechasing men were, as a rule, a long- 

 lived set ; and Mr. Joseph Anderson, the famous dealer 

 of 108 Piccadilly, and Old Oak Farm on the Uxbridge 

 Road, mentioned above, was one of them. Anderson in 

 his steeplechasing adventures was always overshadowed 

 by the Elmores, for he never had the good fortune to 

 own a Lottery or a Gaylad. He once had a share 

 in Moonraker, but as the horse had a somewhat doubt- 

 ful foreles: he sold his share and had the mortification 

 of seeing him beat his horse The Performer at Finchley, 

 while his Grimalkin was once beaten twice in one day 

 by Moonraker. The Performer, however, when ridden 

 by Tom Olliver, once beat Lottery at St. Albans, but 

 the tables were soon turned again. 



When, however, Anderson brought out Cigar — he had 

 previously run second to Lottery at Northampton — for 

 the Horncastle Steeplechase, with Allan McDonough 

 in the saddle, Anderson managed to make a mark in 

 the steeplechasing world. They could, it is true, do 

 no more than run second to Charity for the Grand 

 National in 1841, but at other places they enjoyed a 

 wonderful run of luck ; and so much was Cigar thought 

 of — in Herring's "Steeplechase Cracks" he is repre- 

 sented making strong running on the right — that in the 

 Novel Stakes at Finchley in October 1842, the con- 



