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INDEX 



Company formed to take over Liverpool 



meeting, 78 

 Cottenham and the National Hunt meet- 

 ing, 215, 224 

 Crimea, steeplechases in, 266 

 Cruelty, jockey summoned for, 146 

 Cup given by Prince Esterhazy, 53 

 " Curious horse race," 8 



Dead heat, a doubtful, 2S4 

 Deaf and dumb jockey, 208 

 Derby, and the National Hunt, 227, 229, 



234, 239, 240 

 Distances in early matches doubted, 281 

 Dream, Lord Poulett's, 151 

 Drury Lane, steeplechaser on the stnge 



at, 176 



En'CLOSED course steeplechases, 223, 227 



Farmers, compensation to, for damages, 

 53, 292 ; opposition of, to steeple- 

 chases, ib., 57 ; patronage sought for 

 steeplechases, 198 ; encouraged to breed 

 hunters, ib., 20"] ; National Hunt Com- 

 mittee's luncheon to, 222 



"Father of Steeplechasing." b>ee Cole- 

 man 



Featherweight, disputed, 7 



Fences, stipulations as to, 7 ; earliest 

 "made," 9; jmlled down by riders' 

 friends, 44 ; difficult, 54, 55 ; ox fence 

 introduced at Liverpool for Leicester- 

 shire horses, 89 ; their want of size at 

 Liverpool criticised, 127, 128, 138; on 

 the National Hunt course, 204, 205, 

 209, 211, 212, 217, 220, 221, 229, 234; 

 in the Grand Military, 255, 256; in a 

 Somersetshire match, 289 ; at Bedford, 

 290 ; contribution for mending, 292 ; 

 Yorkshire, 294 



" First Steeplechase on Record," 5 



Flags, introduced to mark course, 25 and 

 note, 290, 296 



Foreigner, National Hunt won by, 243 



Four Oaks Park course, 229 



Fraud, the Running Rein, 20 



Gate money, not taken by Coleman, 53 



Gatwick course, 244 



Gentlemen jockeys, 83 



George HL, Plates at Ascot instituted 



by, 18 ; as a rider, 18 note 

 George IV., wins a race at St. Albans, 21 



Grand Military Steeplechases : originated, 

 251 ; first meeting at Northampton, 

 252; Wetherljy, 254; other meetings 

 at Northampton, 255, 268, 269 ; first 

 race heavy weights, 257 ; Brixworth, 

 25S ; criticism on courses, 260 ; Leam- 

 ington, ib., 263 ; Warwick, 262, 266 ; 

 decline in, 1849, 264; Sutton Cold- 

 field, 268 ; criticisms on the executive, 

 ib. ; Cheltenham, 269 ; Rugby, 270 ; 

 Warwick, 272 ; 1867-99, 272-274 



Grand National. See Liverpool 



Grand National Hunt. S>e National 

 Plunt 



Great Corinthian Cup, 207 



Grimaldi, death of, 28, 52 



Guides in steeplechases, 277 



Handicai', introduction at Liverjiool, 

 92 ; responsibility for decadence of 

 steeplechasing, 197 



Hippodrome, the, 9, 59 



Holman, Mr. John, biography, 301 



Hore, J. P., on early steeplechasing, 3 



Horses — 

 Alid-el-Kader, 45, 109, no, in, n3, 



"5 



Abyssinian, 240 



Acceptance, 238 



Acrobat, 132 



/Esop, 188, 189 



Alabaster, 235 



Aladdin, 182 



Albatross, 119 



Albert Victor, 86 



Albert Cecil, 177 



Album, 295 



Alcibiade, 132, 133, 139, 143, 200 



Alep, 1 98 



Alice Lee, 158 



Alpheus, 190 



Anatis, 122, 123, 124, 126 



Anderton, 231 



Angelo, 23 7iote 



Anonymous, 92 



Antelope, 38, 50 tiote, 288 



Arliilrator, 166 



Arbury, 128, 131 



Arcadian, 234, 235 



Arthur O'Leary, 154 



Astrolabe, 138, 139 



Austerlitz, 165 



Bacchus, 168 



Baccy, 184 



