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his journeys took him along Gray's Inn Road? while 

 the demands for locks of his hair, a hoof, &c., were very 

 numerous. The head was sent to a taxidermist to be 

 preserved, and was for some time exhibited in the 

 Edgeware Road ; then it passed into the possession of 

 John Garnham, the groom who had always looked after 

 Lottery up to the time Elmore gave or lent him to Mr. 

 Hall, and, finally, it was bought from Garnham by Mr. 

 Langdon, the saddler, of Duke Street, Manchester 

 Square, and that firm at present owns it. There 

 was a peculiar connection between Mr. Langdon and 

 Lottery. About four years ago I wrote for The Field 

 newspaper a short notice of Lottery in consequence 

 of a number of questions addressed to that journal, 

 and Mr. Langdon supplemented that notice by 

 saying that, when Elmore bought Lottery, he (Mr. 

 Langdon) was spending his holidays at Elmore's 

 place, Uxendon Farm. Mr. Langdon, senior, made 

 all the saddles in which Jem Mason rode the horse ; 

 and later, when he developed a leg after running in 

 the Liverpool Grand National, he always ran in some 

 special chamois leather bandages, put on wet, made 

 by Mr. Langdon. 



Lottery, it may be added, foaled in 1830, was by 

 Lottery — Parthenia by Welbeck, her dam by Grog out 

 of a mare by Staghunter, and there being a stain in the 

 pedigree. Lottery came within the category of half-breds 

 or "Cocktails," as it was then the fashion to call them. 

 Under the name of Chance he, as a four-year-old, ran 

 twice on the flat at the Holderness Hunt meetinof of 

 1834, winning once. 



Soon after Elmore bousfht the horse he sold him to 

 Mr. Villebois of Marham, Norfolk, and he rode him with 

 his stag-hounds for some time, and then resold him to 

 Elmore, who put him to steeplechasing, though, according 

 to some accounts, he was first let out as a hunter, which 



