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but on rounding the corner into the straight Sir William 

 and The Duke jumped the first of the hurdles together, 

 with Scamp only just behind. The Duke was soon 

 afterwards in difficulties and chanced the last hurdles, 

 where he was passed by Scamp, who could not, however, 

 catch Sir William, the last named winning easily by 

 about forty yards. 



After three years of steeplechasing under Mr. Lynn's 

 auspices, that gentleman's health, which had previously 

 been failing, was too weak to permit, in the words of an 

 advertisement, "of his continuing the unremitted exer- 

 tions he has hitherto devoted to the Liverpool races." 

 The Liverpool meeting was therefore, in 1839, turned 

 into a kind of syndicate, or company, to ensure the 

 races being carried on properly. 



The property was divided into 1000 Proprietorships 

 at ;^2 5 each. The trustees were Lord Stanley, Sir 

 Thomas Massey Stanley (at one time racing confederate 

 of Sir Joseph Hawley), Messrs. W. Blundell, James 

 Aspinall, and William Earle. 



The racing committee were Earls of Derby, Sefton, 

 Eglinton, and Wilton : Lords George Bentinck, Stanley, 

 and Robert Grosvenor ; Sirs John Gerard, T. Massey 

 Stanley, and R. W. Bulkeley ; the Hon. E. M. Lloyd 

 Mostyn, and Mr. E. G. Hornby. 



This racing committee had the fixing of all races, 

 and another committee, called " Directors," had the 

 management of the affairs of the race-course and were 

 chosen from the body of subscribers generally, while 

 Mr. Lynn remained a shareholder and assisted with his 

 advice and suggestions. The property was vested in 

 the above-mentioned five trustees, and the venture was 

 expected to make a return of ten per cent., and this, so 



