THE GRAND NATIONAL. 



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Manifesto and Van der Berg-, with Cathal mcjst 

 prominent of the rest, who ran in a cluster. 



Before reaching- the stand Royal Puick and Sarah 

 Bernhardt were the only pair that had not negotiated 

 the firsc half of the 

 journey. 



^sop, Dalkeith 

 and Horizon cleared 

 the water side by 

 side, but, imfortu- 

 nately, the last- 

 n a m e d , b e i n g' 

 slightly interfered 

 with, fell. 



As they went into 

 the country a second 

 time .-Esop was still 

 leading- to Dalkeith, 

 Father O'Flynn 

 lying third, but at 

 Becher's Brook Dal- 

 keith, whose rider had broken a stirrup iron, 

 l)lundered and nearly fell. At the open ditch by 

 the canal point A{sop, dead beat, came down. Ley- 

 bourne being much interfered with in consequence. 

 Prince Albert also came to grief at the same place. 



MR. JOSEPH WIDGER. 



