i6 HEROES AND HEROINES OF 



BETTING. 



3 to I agst. The Nun. 8 to i agst. Arthur. 



4 „ I „ Lottery. lo „ i „ Cruickshank. 

 7 „ I „ Seventy Four. 12 „ i „ Jerry. 



The Race. 



Though set for half-past one It was nearly half- 

 past three before the eleven runners faced the 

 starter. All went well until Becher's Brook was 

 reached, when a collision between Cruickshank and 

 Weathercock caused the latter to fall and roll over 

 Barker, who was so seriously injured that he had to 

 be carried to a farm-house hard by. Mr. Power, 

 who rode his own horse, Valentine, with the object 

 of winning a heavy bet that he had made that he 

 would be first over the wall, brought the field 

 along- from this point at a tremendous pace, and 

 he and Lottery bore down on the obstacle in 

 question, nearly abreast. Valentine cleared it 

 safely, but Lottery, whose head was hardly straight 

 at the time, charging the obstacle in most impet- 

 uous fashion, breasted it and fell heavily, an 

 example which was followed immediately afterwards 

 by Columbine, The Nun, and .Seventy Four, Tom 

 Oliver, who rode the latter, in getting up being 

 badly kicked and his collar-bone broken. 



