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coat laying as close, smooth, and silky, as 

 though the month had been July instead of 

 April, trained to perfection as he was, and, 

 indeed, must have been, in order to accom- 

 plish his stupendous task — I must confess 

 that he did not " fill the eye " as a victor 

 in the greatest steeplechasing struggle of 

 the world. In the stable he looks hardly 

 big enough for the work, and is certainly 

 no weio;ht-carrier. But I have his trainer's 

 authority for saying that the horse did a 

 preparation which, in point of severity, 

 would have broken down anything except 

 either the Wild Man himself or a traction 

 engine. Mr. Gatland is wise in his genera- 

 tion, and when he turns out a horse to run 

 in a big 'chase, that horse, depend upon it, 

 is not only fit, but can jump the course. 

 The Liverpool hero has a wonderfully lean, 

 clever-looking; head, with that unerring^ sioii 

 of brain power, great width between the eyes. 

 On his side was still visible the "one" which 

 Mr. Widger had to administer, left-handed, 

 just as the horse cleared Cathal in the final 



