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Joseph Doyle, the veterinary surgeon of Dublin, and 

 in 1868 Mr. W. Lonof boucrht The Lamb for a sum 

 which was said to be about 300 sovereigns, and in due 

 course he made his first appearance as a steeplechaser 

 at Punchestown, where he won the Kildare Hunt Plate 

 from fourteen other competitors. Afterwards Lord 

 Poulett leased him for his racing career from Mr. Doyle, 

 and he carried the cerise and blue sleeves for the first time 

 at Aintree in the Grand National of 1868, in a field of 

 twenty. The Lamb was unplaced in the important race 

 at Bedford, and at Kingsbury in the following December, 

 when carrying 12 st. 3 lb., he was beaten after a tre- 

 mendous race by The Nun, though only by a short 

 neck. Owinof to some mistake he was entered under a 

 wrong age for the Grand National of 1869, and the day 

 after The Colonel won he ran fourth for the Sefton 

 steeplechase, but the distance being only a little over 2h 

 miles was not far enough for him. 



Nothing more was seen of him till 187 i, when both 

 he and Pearl Diver, who was second to him in 1 868, carried 

 1 1 St. 5 lb. The Colonel had to give The Lamb no less 

 than 17 lb., a task he was unable to perform. Li 1872 

 The Lamb was fourth in the Grand National, carrying 

 [2 St. 7 lb., and he afterwards ran at Abergavenny and 

 other places, and was then sold to Baron Oppenheim for 

 1 200 sovereigns, the good little grey ultimately breaking 

 his leg in the Grand Steeplechase at Baden-Baden in 

 September 1872. He was a wonderfully compact horse, 

 and though only 15 hands high at four years old, he 

 subsequently put on another two inches, and when he 

 ran for the National his extreme measurement was 15 

 hands 2 inches. He had wonderful legs, was very deep 

 in the back ribs, and his shoulders were beautifully 

 sloping, and he had a fine back and loins. It is a some- 

 what curious coincidence that Ben Land, his trainer, 

 committed suicide by cutting his throat, his first jockey. 



