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bably the "Table jump," the field in which the horses 

 landed beine about four feet hiorher than that in which 

 they took off. After one or two other fences had been 

 jumped came the made-up stone wall, five feet high, 

 and a gallop on the flat brought with it the completion 

 of the first round, the horses having to make another 

 circuit which need not be described further than to say 

 that Dictator fell " all of a heap" at the piece of water 

 which had brought down Conrad in the first round ; 

 he regained his feet, however, but fell dead at the very 

 next fence. The Nun, who had gone well up to a 

 certain point, was seen to be running in distress, and 

 rather less than half a mile from home the issue of the 

 race was left to Lottery, True Blue, Paulina, and Seventy- 

 Four, but the final hurdles were jumped by Lottery as 

 flippantly as though he were only just starting, and he 

 won with great ease from Seventy-Four, Paulina, and 

 True Blue in 14 minutes 53 seconds. 



Mr. Laporte, "Animal and Military painter to the 

 King of Hanover," painted a series of four pictures 

 illustrative of the chief incidents in the great steeple- 

 chase of 1839, and these were afterwards engraved, the 

 publishers being Messrs. Fores, of 41 Piccadilly. 



After the above race there was a minor affair, and 

 the brook at which Dictator fell proved fatal to one 

 of the runners named Sweetheart. The races were 

 continued on the following day, and after the decision of 

 a sweepstakes, the fairness of the start was impugned in 

 the weighing-room, and the matter was referred to the 

 " proper tribunal " ; though what that was the account of 

 the racing does not say. 



Tom Olliver, or " Black Tom " as he was often called, 

 and who rode second to Jem Mason in the above race, 

 had a marvellously chequered career. He was born at 

 Angmering, in Sussex, and was born and bred "hope- 

 lessly insolvent." Page, the Epsom trainer, was his 



