CELEBRITIES OF THE PAST 

 THIRTY YEARS 



Just as in tlic teetli of all "ten tliousand 

 pounder" opposition the Derby is still the 

 Derby to the racing man, so is the great 

 event decided each March upon "Ain tree's 

 bleak plain " the highest of all prizes to the 

 votary of steeplechasing. It matters not that 

 Manchester, in the north, puts forth su€h 

 subtle attractions as a shortened course and 

 a pile of added money, or that Sandown 

 and Kempton, in the south, strive to tempt 

 the best of our cross-country performers to 

 their charmins; courses ^ — the National's the 

 National " for a' that," and in the steeple- 

 chasing world Liverpool always has been, 

 and we sincerely trust always will be, " a 



name to conjure with." 



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