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to do with the result, and The Colonel would not have 

 won the second time but that Surney, who evidently 

 had the race in hand, as those that were left in jumped 

 on to the racecourse, twisted a plate at the last hurdle 

 and injured himself. It has been remarked in a pre- 

 vious chapter that Moonraker was bought out of a 

 water-cart for ^i8. Good steeplechasers are some- 

 times discovered in odd places, and Salamander, who 

 beat a field of thirty in 1866, was found in a hovel in 

 Ireland, and bought by Mr. Studd with a couple of 

 others because he thought the horse was worth the 

 very small sum asked for him as he might, with luck, 

 make a decent hunter. Mention of the Grand National 

 without The Lamb is of course impossible, as that 

 good little horse was one of the four that have won the 

 great race twice. If the question were asked which 

 was the best horse that ever won the Liverpool, it is 

 probable that a good many votes would be given to 

 Disturbance, on whom Mr. J. M. Richardson gained 

 the first of his two victories, the second being on 

 Reugny, an inferior animal whose staying had been 

 considered doubtful. Disturbance was an animal out 

 of the common, and his giving 8 lbs. to so good a 

 'chaser as Ryshworth says much for him, seeing that 

 the next day Ryshworth won the Sefton Steeplechase 

 with the greatest ease, giving weight to animals of 

 reputation. As a general rule it may be said that the 

 history of the Grand National is the history of the best 

 steeplechase horses. There are a few famous ones, 



