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Jem's next notable feat was at Dunchurch in 1840, when 

 The Nun, again ridden by Macdonough (who, next to 

 Tom Ferguson, was esteemed the best horseman in Ireland), 

 made a tremendous fight with him. Some distance from 

 the winning-field the pair were in front, and it was here 

 that Jem gave an instance of that wonderful readiness in 

 availing himself of the advantage of a situation that almost 

 amounted to instinct. As they approached the goal — with 

 deep ridge and furrow before them — his quick eye told him 

 that by jumping some high posts and rails two fields 

 distant he would be able to ride straight up the furrows. 

 This he did, and as Macdonough did not like to follow with 

 The Nun, who was a slovenly fencer, the mare had to come 

 floundering across the ridge and furrow in the last field, 

 and was beaten in a canter. 



At Liverpool, the following year. Lottery had his first 

 fall, and, strange to say, he and his old adversary. The Nun, 

 tumbled over the wall together. The latter never recovered 

 the shock, and Lottery was much shaken. Ill-natured 

 people said that Jem's servant was just behind, with his 

 greatcoat, ready to pick his master up ; but I believe this 

 to have been a calumny, and that the cause of the accident 

 was the pace, which was so tremendous that the horse was 

 really blown. 



During the next two seasons Lottery — always ridden 

 by Jem — won the Metropolitan, Dunchurch, Leamington, 

 Northampton, Stratford, and Cheltenham steeplechases, 

 until Mrs Elmore used to say she was quite ashamed of 

 going about the country and carrying away the money 

 from every place. 



Perhaps the greatest feat performed by the pair was at 

 Cheltenham, when Lottery had to carry a heavy amount 

 of penalties, and meet some of the best horses in England. 

 " Now," said Elmore to Jem, when he was ready to start, 

 " you have no chance, but send the old horse along, and 

 gallop him as long as you can." 



What happened I will give in the words of an old 

 sportsman who saw the race : — 



" I was standing about a mile, or something more, from 

 home, where they had to go in and out of a road, and there 



