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recog;nition of value received which we do not often 

 witness in this world. And so much did Jem appre- 

 ciate the compliment that he rode and won for Tom 

 several steeplechases afterwards, taking a tremendous 

 jump with Trust-me-not at St. Albans, and breaking 

 his leg on him at Derby, where he was ridden over, 

 and confined so long to his bed that he could not ride 

 Miss Mowbray in the Liverpool Steeplechase. But in 

 Mr. Goodman he found an excellent substitute." 



Mr. M'Donogh bought a little horse, called Per- 

 fection, when a two-year-old, for 14 sovs ; he was by 

 Monarch, out of a Connemara pony. He thought very 

 little about him, until one day the harriers were hunt- 

 ing near Willmont, and ran into the field where the 

 horse was ploughing ; he kicked himself free of the 

 harness, and set off after the hounds. He jumped a 

 wall about three feet high, and then cleared the deer- 

 park wall, six feet six inches. The horsemen had to 

 make a long detour to get into the park, and when 

 they overhauled the pack, they found them about a 

 mile and a half from where they got into the park ; 

 they had just killed their hare, and Perfection was 

 with them. He was subsequently taken in, well cared 

 for, and hunted for a season. Mr. William M'Donogh, 

 alias " the Blazer," alias " Ould Muck," Allen's brother, 

 one of the best steeplechase riders in the world, was 

 stopping in Liverpool during the race-week, when one 

 night the topic of conversation was relative to the 

 performances of Irish horses over walls. The upshot 

 was, that a well-known English sportsman bet William 

 M'Donogh that he would not get a horse to jump six 

 six-foot walls in fifteen minutes. He accomplished 

 the feat on Perfection in seven minutes. 



