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writer in Badminton says it is curious to note, in a steeple- 

 chase, that hoNvever straight a horse is put at fence, he never 

 jumps quite straight, but always lands a little to left or right. 

 From various sources in English turf history, accounts of 

 remarkable jumps are given, some of which, it must be said, do 

 not appear to be absolutely authentic. The horse Proceed is 

 said to have cleared thirty-seven feet Avhile running a steeple- 

 chase in 18-47. A horse called Culverthorn is reported to have 

 jumped thirty-three feet on one occasion ; and Lather, a hunter 

 owned by Lord Ingestrie, is said to have jumped thirty-seven feet 

 five inches, over a pit. Sir Charles Knightley's horse, the black 

 thoroughbred Penvolio, jumped thirty-one feet over a fence 

 and brook below Brigworth Hill, in the Patchley Hunt. A 

 jump over a brook was made by Old Chandler, a famous 

 steeplechaser, ridden by Captain Broadley, in March, 1847, 

 while running in the Leamington Cup, Warwick, which meas- 

 ured thirty-nine feet, from the hoof-marks on the taking-olf to 

 the hoof-marks on the landing, from actual measurement. 



