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fatal to AHss Clifden II. and Deerslayer. whilst 

 The Actuary and Matthew were pulled up. Two 

 fences further on What Next came down, and 

 Moifaa followed suit at Becher's Brook. At the 

 fence before Valentine's Bucheron, Aunt May, and 

 Timothy Titus came down. 



Ranunculus then took the lead, only to be 

 deprived of it at the Anchor Bridge by Kirkland. 

 At the last fence, just before reaching which Sea- 

 horse II. had been pulled up, Phil May came down, 

 and Kirkland resisting the challenge of Napper 

 Tandy came clean away, and in spite of being 

 interfered with by the riderless Ascetic's Silver 

 and Timothy Titus, scored a most popular victory 

 by three lengths. Four lengths separated second 

 and third with Ranunculus, a neck behind, 

 fourth. 



Time by Benson's chronograph : 9 minutes 

 48 4/5 seconds. 



Well backed all through the piece, and the 

 property of a real good sportsman to boot, no 

 victory — excepting of course that of Moifaa — could 

 have been better received than Kirkland's. That 

 the defeat of the favourite was a great disappoint- 

 ment not onlv to those immediatelv connected with 



