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and broke his leg. Zoedone then took up the 

 runninLi- t*^ the next fence, where Fay came to grief, 

 J'he Scot following suit when a inile from home. 



Zoedone, still maintaining the lead, was the first 

 on the race-course, hoth" jjursued by Seaman and 

 Cvrus. She had shot her bolt at the last tlig-ht of 



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hurdles but one, when she was passed by both 

 Cyrus and Seaman, the former of whom took the 

 lead with every appearance of keeping it until a 

 hundred yards from the chair, when Lord Manners 

 l^ringing up his horse with one run, won a 

 magnificent race by a head. 



Time : 10 minutes 42 2/5 seconds. 



Value of stakes, ^1,535. 



Pedigree and Performances of Seaman. 



Seaman, a six-year-old horse, by Xenophon — 

 Lena Rivers, by Brockley, was bred by Captain 

 Gubbins and ran through all his earlier engage- 

 ments in the name of Mr. Linde. Just prior to Christ- 

 mas, 1881, he passed into Lord Manners' possession 

 for, it was stated, ^2,000. In 1880 Seaman ran 

 only once, when he won the ^1 embers' Plate at 

 Longford, but in 1881 out of five engagements he 

 was successful in three, viz., the F"irst Liverpool 



