30 HEROES AND HEROINES OF 



full with his chest and sending the masonry flying 

 rioht and left, rolls over amongst the debris on 

 the top of his unhappy jockey. 



Immediately in his wake comes Teetotum, whose 

 jockey sports a set of locks worthy of Antinous 

 himself. Another second and he is on top of the 

 prostrate Tinderbox, and the Hyperion curls are laid 

 low in the dust. Lottery is just behind and only 

 escapes by a miracle, the fallen horses being right 

 across his track. After jumping Becker's Brook, 

 where Croxby breaks down, Dragsman shows the 

 way to Vanguard, Peter Simple, Lottery, and The 

 Returned, the others apparently out of it. In the 

 ploughed field next the road The Returned takes 

 a drain which unsteadies him for the time being, 

 as a drain is in the habit of doing occasionally, 

 then Dragsman swerving at the fence, suddenly 

 changes his mind, and jumps sideways over a gate, 

 chuckinof his rider on his neck, and boltino' with 

 him down the lane before the latter could pick up 

 his reins. 



This contrctcDips lets up Vanguard, who, followed 

 closely by the mighty Nimrod. lands first on the race- 

 course, a desperate race between the pair right up 

 to the last hurdle, ending in a victory for Vanguard 

 by three lengths, Dragsman half a length away 



