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through, but with the others he knew he couldn't 

 take a liberty without personal damage to himself, 

 so would do his best accordingly. 



A sensation was provided at the last moment by 

 an application for an injunction for restraining Mr. 

 Garrett Moore from running The Liberator in the 

 Grand National. The Master of the Rolls in 

 Dublin decided, however, that under the terms of 

 partnership entered into with Mr. Plunkett Taaffe, 

 Mr. Moore had a perfect right to run the horse. 



It would indeed have been hard lines if owing to 

 a legal quibble the popular " Garry ' had been 

 deprived of setting the final seal on his fame as a 

 o;entleman rider. 



The following year The Liberator, carrying" 

 12 St. 7 lb. and again ridden by his owner, ran 

 second, whilst in i88i and 1882 he fell on each 

 occasion. 



Though his name will go down to posterity as the 

 rider of The Liberator, Mr. Moore will tell you that 

 the horse he was more closely identified with than 

 anv other, durins^ his lono- and successful career in 

 the saddle, was Scots Grey, on whom he won 

 many a good race, not the least important of 

 them being the Bristol Steeplechase, in 1875, then 

 run for the first time. 



