3i8 THE GRAND NATIONAL. 



Time: 9 minutes 32 2/5 seconds. 

 Value of the stakes, ^1,975. 



This year the race was worth ^2,500, 300 sovs. 

 to go to the second, and 200 sovs. to the third. 



Cloister's victory was without doubt one of the most 

 memorable, as well as popular, in the history of the 

 race. In spite of the fact that his was a weight 

 which had never yet been carried successfully over 

 the course, the public stuck to him like a leech, and 

 right worthily did he reward the confidence reposed 

 in him. 



The scene of enthusiasm when, after making all 

 the running, he cantered in by himself forty )ards 

 ahead of the rest, was something to be remembered. 

 So easy, indeed, was the whole performance to look 

 at, that a well-known flat-race jockey present might 

 well declare that Cloister "simply jumped his 

 opponents silly." 



