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Granted the inexperience, we feel certain that the 

 consensus of opinion —certainly amonost those who 

 were lucky enough to witness this niemorable 

 strugo-le— would be that the man, who on a broken- 

 down horse, with the elements against him in the 

 shape of a blinding snowstorm, was capable of 

 getting the best of such a doughty opponent as 

 Tommy Heaslev, on his favourite battle Q^round, at 

 the end (jf a long and tiring finish, was well able to 

 clef)' criticism as regards his horsemanship. 



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