44 THE GRAND NATIONAL. 



Veluti breaking- down at the first hurdle, after 

 landing- on the race-course, went on in pursuit of 

 Culverthorpe, whom he caught up at the last hurdle, 

 and leaving him as if he were standing still, won 

 with the greatest possible ease by three lengths. 

 Three lenQfths awav Switcher was third, Firefiv 

 fourth, and Eagle fifth. 



Time : lo minutes 47 seconds. 



The field on the whole were by no means a 

 showy-looking lot. Lancet the favourite, Yeluti and 

 Firefly, the latter a fine up-standing animal, and 

 trained to perfection, standing out by themselves in 

 point of appearance. Some of them indeed seemed 

 not worth the stakes that were paid for them, the 

 worst of all beincj the animal with the outrageous 

 name of Hornihiharriho. 



Rough in his coat, apparently out of condition, 

 and ridden by an utterly unknown jockey, no one 

 gave a thought to Pioneer, whose runaway victory 

 astonished no one more than his owner, who, accord- 

 ing to all accounts, did not invest a shilling on the 

 half brother to Vangfuard. 



What made the victory more remarkable, was 

 that the distance the horse had to travel this year 

 was said to have been nearly five miles. 



