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In the same year he made his first appearance in the 

 Grand National on Cathal, who had run second the previous 

 year, being beaten half a length by Wild Man from Borneo, 

 and whom he had bought in the interim from Mr. J. B. Atkinson. 

 On this occasion he finished eight to The Soarer, ridden by 

 Mr. D. G. M. Campbell, 9th Lancers. 



The following year in the Grand National, won by Manifesto, 

 Cathal again ran, with his owner, as before, in the saddle, and 

 starting at 7 to i in a field of twenty-eight runners, was with 

 them all the way, until the last hurdle, when he came to grief ; 

 Manifesto winning in the end by twenty lengths from Ford of 

 Fyne and Filbert, who were separated from each other by only 

 a head. 



In 1898 Cathal and his plucky young owner again put in 

 an appearance at Aintree, and but for the blinding snowstorm 

 which prevailed during the race, and confused horses and riders 

 alike, the chances are that their bold bid for victory would have 

 at last met with its reward. As it was, Cathal, in spite of the 

 vigorous calls of his rider, had to succumb in the end to 

 Drogheda, who won, all out, by three lengths, the snow falling 

 so heavily as the horses passed the post, that few, if any, of the 

 spectators knew for the moment which had won. 



This was Mr. Ward's last appearance in the Grand 

 National. 



Meanwhile, the Boer War intervened, and it was not until 

 some time after its close that this brilliant young horseman was 

 once more in a position to recommence riding in earnest, only 

 to be stopped shortly afterwards by the illness which laid 

 him low. 



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