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tired may be jucjo-ed from the fact that he knocked 

 both the hist hurdles down." 



The sequel to the sale of the three Grand 

 National horses sounds almost incredible. Hardly 

 had they been located at Luton Hoo, Mr. Gerard 

 Leigh's place in Hertfordshire, than these three 

 high class steeplechasers were brought out into 

 the park one afternoon, with a lunging rein 

 attached to each, and jumped over all nianner ot 

 fancy obstacles, arranged in a circle, tor the edifi- 

 cation of a large house party. Scenes in the circle, 

 in fact, with nothing to pay. 



It may have been amusing and doubtless was, 

 whilst it lasted, to the onlookers, but the result to the 

 performers was disastrous in the extreme ; Disturb- 

 ance, who up to now was a perfectly sound horse, 

 being hopelessly ruined for racing purposes, whilst 

 the other two were in not much better case, neither 

 of them ever doing any good afterwards, though 

 Reugny, who passed into Mr. Gomm's hands lattr 

 on, actually started fa\'Ourite in the Grand National 

 won bv Austerlit/. 



JVote. — It may interest our military readers to hear that Chimney 

 Sweep, who made such a good fight of it with tlie \\inner, was 

 originally Lord Marcus Beresford"s second charger, when that noble- 

 man was in the Seventh Hussars. 



