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to the Derby. The conditions are altered, the 

 country is different, the pace is quickened ; only 

 the horses and their riders are pretty well much 

 the same as they used to be. Some say the two 

 latter have improved of late years ; others will 

 have it that both have deteriorated. 



This of course is a matter of opinion. " Both 

 may be right and neither wrong," as Mr. Mantalini 

 would say. 



Lottery is thus described by The Druid. " He was 

 a very peculiarly made horse, short in his quarters, 

 deep in his girth, but light in his middle and back 

 ribs ; with a perfect snaffle-bridle mouth, fine speed, 

 and a very ' trap to follow.' W^hen others could hardly 

 rise at their fences, he seemed to jump as if from 

 a spring-board. His jumping muscles were first 

 brought into such high play by putting him into 

 a ring, with flights of rails around it, and a man in 

 the middle to keep him moving, and he perfected his 

 jumping education with Mr. Anderson's staghounds." 

 Jim Mason, whose name will always be asso- 

 ciated with that of Lottery, made his first appear- 

 ance on Mr. John Elmore's famous horse in the 

 last St. Albans Steeplechase which ever took place, 

 in December, 1S36, when he was third. Lottery 

 being very much out of form at the time. Six 



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