THE GRAND NATIONAL. 



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to win, to send everyone away with pleasant 

 memories of the Grand National of 1903. And 

 as Drumcree, always a great public fancy, was 

 successful in brinoino- about this desirable consum- 

 mation, what more 

 is to be said ? 



It was a most 

 interestino- race 

 throughout, as 

 everyone aoreed, 

 the excitement being- 

 kept up to the \'ery 

 end. The fall of 

 Inquisitor so earl)' 

 in the Jay was a 

 great disappoint- 

 ment to a good 

 many, for besides 

 being a public fancy, 

 it would have been 

 pleasant to see Lord 



Coventry's colours in the van once again. Drumree 

 looked decidedly dangerous until he fell all of a 

 heap on the flat, presumably from a fit ot the 

 staggers, just before reaching the last fence, whilst 

 nothino- in the race looked more like winning than 



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Photo, by Elliott and Fry. 



SIR CHARLES NUCIKNT. 



