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facilities for reaching the course, amongst them, 

 made ample amends for any shortcomings there 

 might be, and undoubtedly were, in the quality of 

 the field for the Grand National of 1907, if the 

 largest crowd we ever saw gathered together at 

 Aintree is any criterion. It only wanted a popular 

 fancy to win, to send everybody away happy, and 

 as this duly came about, and in a highly sensational 

 fashion, the great event of the day left the 

 pleasantest recollections behind in the minds of 

 all who witnessed it. 



Ascetic's Silver, wdio man\' tho'joht would win 

 again in such moderate company, was voted a bit 

 big b)' the critics, and perhaps nothing pleased the 

 eye more than Extravagance, with his tail plaited 

 in old-lashioned style, and trained to the hour, whose 

 fall in front of the stands, the result of being inter- 

 fered with bv the riderless Rathvale, was a great 

 disappointment to a good manv people. 



Though perhaps he had not much to beat, Eremon 

 won like a real good horse, and may possibly earn 

 a name for himself in the future which will entitle 

 him to be classified with such horses as Disturbance, 

 The Lamb, Cloister, and Manifesto ; whilst the fine 

 horsemanship of Newey, who rode all the way h'om 

 the second fence with only one stirrup, hanipered, in 



