176 HEROES AND HEROINES OF 



Three lengths away Primrose was third, Survey 

 fourth, Keystone fifth. Gardener sixth, Q.C 

 seventh, and Alcibiade eighth. 



Time : lo minutes lo seconds. 



Value of the stakes, ^1,465. 



A finer finish for a steeplechase than that 

 between The Colonel and The Doctor w^as 

 probably never witnessed. Unfortunately the 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

 took a different view of the case to that of the 

 spectators, and a summons against George Holman, 

 the rider of The Doctor, for excessive whipping 

 and spurring, was the result. 



A feature of the race was the number of horses 

 who kept on their legs as compared with former 

 years, Traveller being the only one to fall, with the 

 result that the unusual sight was witnessed of 

 seventeen horses galloping round the last bend for 

 home. 



The Colonel, who was a seven-year-old horse by 

 Knight of Kars- -Boadicea, was bred by Mr. John 

 Weyman of Ludlow, and trained over a very primitive 

 course with plenty of big jumping on it, by a farmer 

 named Roberts, his riders being mostly ploughboys. 

 Shortly after his victory, he was sold to Baron 



