6 HEROES AND HEROINES OF 



OWNER. HORSE. RIDDEN BY. 



Captain Marshal ... Railroad Mr. Powell. 



Mr. Newcombe ... Cannon Ball ... Owner. 



Captain Lamb ... Jack ... ... ... Wadlow. 



(by Marmaduke 



Mr. Vevers Charity Hardy. 



(by Woodman) 



Lord McDonald ... The Nim ... ... Mr. McDonough. 



Sir D. Baird Pioneer Mr. T. Walker. 



The necessary preliminaries of weighing out 

 and mounting being over, and the dense mob 

 reduced into something Hke shape by the afore- 

 mentioned " specials,'" Lord Sefton, who acted 

 as starter — umpire he is termed in the report 

 of the period — proceeded to marshal the seventeen 

 competitors and conduct them to the starting- 

 field. 



Arrived there, he gave them the usual directions 

 to leave all the flags to the left, except an extra 

 one placed at the upper end of the first brook for 

 the purpose of making every horse take it, another 

 flag being fixed at the lower end of the field. Had 

 not this precaution been adopted it was competent 

 tor any of the riders to bear a little to the right, 

 and by jumping an additional fence or two, avoid 

 the brook altogether. His Lordship having said 

 his say, down went the flag and the first Grand 

 National had commenced. 



