128 HEROES AND HEROLXES OE 



Mr. \\\ \\\ Baker's Harry, 9 st. 5 lb. 



G. Stevens. 

 Mr. J. Henry's The Poet, 8 st. 12 lb. ... Gatt. 



STARTING PRICES, 



The Race. 



The Hag fell at 3.29, nearly half an huur late, 

 Bridegroom, Xanthus and Willoughby at once 

 going to the front and jiunping the first fence 

 together. 



Thomastown refused at the first fence, and The 

 Tattler at the second, the former with such 

 obstinacy that the great Irish " Pot" was forthwith 

 walked back to the place from whence he came. 



With the exception of a collision at the fence and 

 bank beyond Becker's Brook between Bucephalus 

 and The Tattler, nothing worthy of note took place 

 until the race-course was reached, where a sad 

 fatality occurred. Playman, rushing niadly at two 



