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is undoubted. The names of Casse Tete, 

 Shifnal, Pathfinder, and Old Joe are handed 

 down throughout succeeding generations as 

 Grand National winners ; whilst those of 

 Scarrington, Congress, Schiedam, and Rysh- 

 worth, infinitely better horses, as I think 

 most unprejudiced people would admit, are 

 thought much less of. Scarrington — who fell 

 dead whilst running in a 'chase at the old 

 Croydon course — must have beaten Casse 

 Tete, bar accident, in 1872 ; Congress, one 

 of the grandest-looking horses I ever saw, 

 was only defeated a neck by Regal, giving 

 away plenty of weight to the winner ; Schie- 

 dam (winner of the Grand National Hunters' 

 Steeplechase of 1870) was considered by Mr. 

 J. M. Richardson, who rode him, the best he 

 ever got on — as ill-luck would have it, a horse 

 fell just in front, and Schiedam was brought 

 down on top of him ; whilst the last of the 

 quartette I have chosen (merely for purposes 

 of illustration), Mr. Chaplin's Ryshworth, 

 looked all over a winner until close home, 

 but pecking as he landed over the last 



