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was badly shaken, and Emperor broke his neck. Why 

 Not fell two fences from home. This was the largest 

 field since Old Joe won in 1886, but six only of the 

 twenty-one runners completed the course. 



1892 



Mr. G. C. Wilson's " Father O'Flynn," 



aged, 10 St. 5 lb Capt. E. R. Owen i 



„ C. Duff's "Cloister," aged, 12 st. 



3 lb Mr. J. C. Dormer 2 



,, G. Masterman's " Ilex," aged, 



12 St. 7 lb A. Nightingall , 3 



Twenty-five started. Betting : — 20 to i each Father O'Flynn and 

 Ilex ; 1 1 to 2 Cloister. 



The other starters were Cruiser, The Midshipmite, 

 Tenby, Partisan, Lord of the Glen, The Primate, 

 Meldrum, Jason, Paul Pry, Ardcarn, Ulysses, Hollington, 

 Reliance, Lord Arthur, Nap, Bagman, Southam, Flying 

 Column, Rollesby, Faust, Billee Taylor, and Brunswick. 



The horses were started at the second attempt, and 

 there being no mistakes made at the first fence, the 

 competitors were all together as they reached the second, 

 where Flying Column headed Nap, who had been first 

 away. The third stopped Rollesby and Paul Pry, and 

 then at the fence before the water Cloister took up the 

 running with Flying Column next, the pair holding a 

 clear lead from the remainder. No material change 

 had taken place on jumping into the country the second 

 time, except that Billee Taylor bolted and Tenby fell at 

 the second fence, while at Becher's Brook Meldrum, 

 Rollesby, and Jason came down, Paul Pry being soon 

 afterwards pulled up. Cloister maintained his lead along 

 the canal side, and presently The Midshipmite raced up 

 to the leader, but had no sooner headed him than he 

 came down at a fence, so Cloister was left in front again. 



