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chiefly grass. I remember that the ground 

 was soft and going heavy. The distance was 

 three and three-quarter miles, and the con- 

 ditions briefly catchweight over 13 stone, 

 all horses to be the property of, and ridden 

 by, an M.P., and no horse to have previously 

 won a steeplechase. Lord Chesham started 

 a field of ten senators, and the result of the 

 race was as follows : 



Mr. Cyril Flower's Home Rule, 13 st. 8J Ib. . . i 

 (afterwards disqualified). 



Mr. Elliot Lees' Damon, 13 st 2 



Mr. J. Fitzwilliam's Marcellus, 13 st. II Ib. . . 3 



Mr. F. B. Mildmay's horse, 13 st o 



Mr. W. Long's horse, 13 st. 8^ Ib o 



Mr. Bromley-Davenport's Berkshire, 13 st. o 



Mr. P. A. Muntz's Dauntless, 15 st. 4^ Ib. . . o 



Lord Henry Bentinck's Border Chief, 13 st. JOj Ib. o 



Mr. J. B. White's horse, 13 st. 6f Ib. . . . o 



Mr. W. Jarvis's Conjuror, 13 st o 



Lord Newark's horse, 13 st o 



Colonel Heath's horse, 13 st o 



