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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



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with the hounds, and on being given a lead over some gorsed hurdles, jumped them 

 very well. The leap appeared to infuse new courage into the mare for she refused 

 nothing all day ; proved to be a tremendous jumper, and won the Grand National. 

 Like Emblem, her sister Emblematic, winner in 1864, was a very weedy-looking 

 mare, yet they carried lost. iolb. and lost. 6lb., respectively, to victory at Liverpool ; 

 just at the time, curiously enough, when an agitation was on foot for the weights 

 to be raised in order to attract a better class of horse ; yet these two " weeds " 

 carried quite respectable imposts to the front. There was a tremendous race in 

 1865, when Mr. B. J. Angell's Alcibiade, ridden by Mr. Coventry, beat Captain 

 Browne's Hall Court (a bond fide hunter), ridden by Captain Tempest, by a head. 



Mr. Angell, known as 

 "Cherry" Angell, from 

 his colours, kept a 

 good many horses and 

 was connected with the 

 fortunes of the Brighton 

 Coach in the early days 

 of the revival. Captain 

 (now Major) Tempest 

 used also to ride in 

 a good many steeple- 

 chases, and was master 

 of the Blankney Hounds 

 for some seasons before 

 Mr. N. C. Cockburn, 

 the now retiring joint master, took the country. The winner on this occasion, 

 Alcibiade (by Cossack Aunt Phyllis], made his first public appearance over a 

 country, though he had been well tried at Lakenham, where he was schooled. 

 He cost Mr. Angell 400 guineas, after winning the Brighton Club Stakes, and 

 in 1863, when three years old, was claimed out of a Selling Race at Epsom. The 

 National went to a rank outsider in 1866, Mr. Studd's Salamander, who it was 

 understood could have been bought on quite reasonable terms a year or two before. 

 Cortolvin, who ran second to Salamander in 1 866, when he was owned by the late 

 Lord Poulett, could never win a race for his old master ; but no sooner had the Duke 

 of Hamilton bought him than he won the National in 1867, the Duke netting it is 



Kemflton Park. "King David" ahead, " Ambush //." 

 on the right, " Drogheda " on the left. 



