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and led to the race-course for the first time, when Red 

 Hussar rushed to the front, and came on with a sHght 

 lead of Downpatrick, who was now well clear of Albert 

 Cecil. Entering the country for the second time. Game- 

 cock took second place at the fence before Becher's 

 Brook. Candahar refused, and Zoedone fell at the 

 fence beyond, while Belmont was pulled up. Gamecock 

 took up the running till a mile from home, but fell 

 directly afterwards ; Lang Syne also came down. Dog 

 Fox showed the way on to the course, followed by 

 Redpath, Roquefort, Frigate, and Black Prince, with 

 Jolly Sir John at their heels to the five-furlong post, 

 where the leaders took close order, and entering 

 the line for home Roquefort took up the running on 

 the rails until two hurdles from home, when Frigate 

 challenged Roquefort, who, however, held his own 

 to the end, and won easily by two lengths ; four 

 lengths between second and third. Time, lo minutes 

 lo seconds. 



None of the riders of the fallen horses received any 

 injuries beyond a shaking. Roquefort proved a lucky 

 purchase to Mr. Arthur Cooper, who took him from 

 a former owner for the ^1250 that gentleman had given 

 for him a week or so previously at Sandown at public 

 auction. His rider's brother, William Wilson, trained 

 Voluptuary and Roquefort at Ilmington in Worcester- 

 shire. 



The course had been widened at the canal turn, so 

 that there was ample space to start a field of forty horses 

 abreast. The Grand National course was this year all 

 grass, and it w^as railed in on the inside for its entire 

 length, thus preventing the bad tempered ones from 

 shirkino^ their work. 



