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broke the horse himself, and soon found out 

 . he had got a wonder. With his owner in 

 the saddle, Gay lad ran and won at Rugby, 

 Newport Pagnell, and two or three other 

 places, until Elmore, the hunter dealer, cast 

 loving eyes on him, and finally bought the 

 horse for a thousand, with another hundred 

 contingency in case he won the Liverpool. 

 In the Grand National of 1842 Elmore 

 started both Gaylad (ridden by Tom Olliver) 

 and Lottery (Jem Mason). Both horses got 

 the course safely, and Gaylad came out full 

 of running at the last fence, and won. 



Moonraker, who won the great 'chase at 

 St. Albans in 1831 from eleven others, had 

 a very humble beginning. To speak quite 

 accurately, no one seems to know what his 

 actual "beginning" was. What is known 

 about him, however, is that before his trans- 

 mogrification into a steeplechaser he was 

 drawing a water-cart in, it is said, the streets 

 of Birmingham. The purchase price was the 

 extremely modest one of eighteen sovereigns, 

 and the horse owned to almost as many years 



