1/4 tii Scarlet and Silk 



triumphantly, at Aintree, on the queer-tem- 

 pered little Father O'Flynn. 



" Has he, now ? you don't say so. And 

 they couldn't kill the little devil, even with 

 all that, eh ? " answered the other. 



It is rather a noteworthy circumstance 

 that the three judges officiating at the show 

 just named were all men who had ridden in 

 the Liverpool Grand National — Mr. " Pussy " 

 Eichardson, who rode Disturbance and Keugny 

 to victory in successive years ; Mr. Danby, 

 who was on Pluralist in 1847, when that 

 good horse fell early in the contest, but lost 

 so little time that he finished less than 150 

 yards behind Matthew, the winner ; and Mr. 

 Charley Cunningham, who steered Why Not 

 into second place as far back as 1889. What 

 a wonderful little horse the last-named has 

 proved himself. He has run consistently 

 well at Liverpool, on which severe course 

 he always seems a stone better than else- 

 where ; and not the least of his remarkable 

 performances was in the National of 1895, 

 where, with twelve stone up, he was always 



