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pulled up very leg-weary, was a bad third. 

 Brunswick was fourth, Why Not fifth, and Emperor 

 sixth, 



Hettie and Gamecock trotted home without 

 having" completed the course. 



Skelton, on Voluptuary, broke his collar-bone. 



Performanxes. 



Ilex, as a four-year-old in 1888, ran unplaced to 

 Livebait, Young Glasgow, and Skinflint in the 

 November Qualifying Hunters' Steeplechase at the 

 Plumpton November Meeting, but he subsequently 

 won the Selling Hunters' Plate at Leicester. 



Last year, 1888, he ran second to Lawn in the 

 Four Oaks Spring Handicap Steeplechase, unplaced 

 to Kil worth. Fethard and Lord Chatham in the 

 First International Handicap at the Leopardstown 

 Spring Meeting, and, having passed into the 

 possession of Mr. G. Masterman, he ran second to 

 Battle Royal in the Great Sandown Steeplechase. 



No less than four Grand National winners were 

 amongst the entries in the race this year, viz. : 

 Voluptuary, Roquefort, Gamecock and Frigate, all 

 but the last named seeing the post. 



The victory of Ilex, who had been well backed 

 from the very commencement and started a 



