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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



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It appears to have been the eighth obstacle, and was a post and rail in 

 front of a hedge with six or seven feet of water on the far side. Conrad, 

 ridden by Captain Becher, who seems to have made the running from the 

 start, never rose at the rails, which he broke through and tumbled into 

 the water, Lottery and two or three others jumping over the pair, and just 

 missing them. Jerry was the winner in 1840, in which year Lord Sefton 

 was begged to make a stone wall one of the obstacles in the course, to 

 encourage the Irish owners to send their horses over. Lord Sefton agreed, 

 but intimated that, to give the Leicestershire horses a chance, he would also 

 have an ox-fence set up, and a very tolerable imitation of the genuine article 



it was. Jerry, like 

 Lottery, a Lincoln- 

 shire-bred horse, was 



!0N^Mnm^^ : ' : ^ ^^ by Catterick out of 



y> / ^k^^^tf^fe^v a sister to Jenny, by 



Belltrophon. Jerry 

 ran in the Liverpool 

 race as Mr. Ville- 

 bois's nomination. 

 Lottery, meantime, 

 ran for four or five 

 times after he won, 

 but met with no 

 further success. 



The word " National " occurs for the first time in connection with the race in 

 1843, when it was called "The Liverpool and National Steeplechase," and became 

 a handicap. In the previous year (1842) the winner was Mr. D'Arcy's Gay Lad, 

 ridden by Tom Olliver, who won again on Lord Chesterfield's Vanguard, and for 

 the third time on Captain Little's Peter Simple in 1853, after a lapse of ten years. 

 There are one or two circumstances which call for notice in connection with this 

 " Liverpool and National " Steeplechase. In the first place, not one of the nineteen 

 competitors fell ; secondly, the race was considered a certainty for Tom Tug by 

 those connected with him ; but the horse, being an inveterate puller, overpowered 

 his rider, Rackley, who was told to wait, and ran himself to a standstill, so that he 

 could only get third to Mr. Quartermaine's Discount and Mr. Stirling Crawfurd's 



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