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verified was seen less than two months later, when he 

 carried off the Barnet race in 1838. After winning that 

 contest, Jem Mason rode him to victory at Daventry, 

 beating Captain Becher on Vivian. 



In 1839 Lottery was sent to George Dockeray at 

 Epsom, to be trained for the Liverpool Grand National, 

 and before he had had him very long, he reported to 

 Elmore the agreeable intelligfence that none of his race- 

 horses could get away from him. At Liverpool, on the 

 night before the Grand National, Josh Anderson, the 

 vocalist, made a very remunerative bet on the race, in 

 somewhat singular circumstances. He sang at " The 

 Waterloo " " Farewell, my trim-built Wherry," and was 

 vociferously encored, but on coming to the footlights, 

 declined to sing again unless some one would lay him 

 100 to 10 against Lottery. In order to get another 

 song out of the great singer, some bookmaker present 

 laid the required odds. At the finish of the Grand 

 National, Lottery was so little exhausted that he is said 

 to have cleared thirty-three feet at the last hurdles. 



Lottery's success in the Grand National of 1839 is 

 referred to in detail under the account of that race ; but, 

 during the same season, the horse won at Maidstone, 

 Cheltenham, and Stratford-on-Avon. At Leamington 

 the ground was so deep that the horses could hardly 

 struggle along ; yet the farther they went, the farther 

 Lottery's opponents were left behind. Two fields from 

 home, however, Jem Mason went on the wrong side of 

 a flag, so he had to go back, lost a great deal of ground, 

 and was beaten by a head. 



Lottery's next great performance was at Dunchurch. 

 As seen from the winning field, the only horses in sight 

 were Elmore's Lottery, and Lord Macdonald's The 

 Nun, a thoroughbred by Gallon, who had won several 

 races on the flat before she was put to jumping. She 

 was ridden by William McDonough, also known as 



