212 THE GRAND NATIONAL. 



for havino- won a selling race previously. Pathfinder 

 was then sold to Mr. Coupland, master of the Ouorn, 

 and regularly ridden by Tom Firr the huntsman. 



Originally known as The Knight, Mr. Coupland 

 re-christened him Pathfinder, and in 1874 won the 

 Leicester Hunt Steeplechase with him at Melton 

 Mowbray. He then became the joint property of 

 the Marquis of Huntly and Mr. Bird, in whose name 

 and cohuirs he ran in the Grand National. Mr. 

 Thomas said after the race that approaching 

 Becher's Brook the second time round, the horse 

 appeared so exhausted, that had he been his own 

 property, and himself a rich man, he should certainly 

 have pulled him up, for fear he would fall and injure 

 himself. As it was he kept pegging away on the off 

 chance, with the result we all know. 



