THE GRAND NATIONAL. 



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Brook No. 3, approached horn a ploughed field, 

 consisted of a low bank, with a deep ditch or brook, 

 and timber three feet high (but before the race 

 depressed) on further side, the space between brook 

 and timber being at least nine or ten feet. This 

 was probably the brook known as " Valentine's." 



Then in front of the Grand Stand was erected 

 expressly for the occasion, but 7io/, if the reporter oi 

 Beir s Life in Loudon is to be believed, by particular 

 desire, a wall 4 feet 8|- inches in height. 



In the second round, too, a stiff post and rail 

 topped with gorse was put up, as the same chronicler 

 tells us with grim humour, " to conciliate those who 

 were ' lonorino- ' for another touch at the wall." 



Of the original fifty-five entries, but seventeen 



were left in, they being as follows :- 



OWNER. 



Mr. Elmore ... 

 Sir G. Mostyn 



Mr. Theobald 

 Mr. Stephenson 

 Mr. J. S. Oswell 

 Captain Childe 

 Mr. Robertson 

 Mr. H. S. Eowen 

 Mr. Ferguson 



HORSE. 

 Lottery 

 Seventy Four 



(by Memnon) 

 Paulina 

 True Blue ... 

 Dictator 

 Conrad 

 Cramp 

 Rambler 

 Daxon 

 P)arkston 

 Rust 



(by Master Bagot) 



RIDDEN BY. 

 Jim Mason. 

 T. Oliver. 



Mr. Martin. 



Mr. Barker. 



Carlin. 



Captain Becher. 



Wilmot. 



Morgan. 



Owner. 



Byrne. 



Mr. W. McDonough. 



