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His steeplechasing days over, The Liberator was 

 presented to Mr. Manser of Newmarket with a view 

 to a happy home, and having- taught two of his sons 

 to ride, one of them took him out one day with the 

 Newmarket drag, and started him so badly that the 

 good old horse had to be destroyed. 



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