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down, and the Great Metropolitan on the 

 old Croydon course in 1881, steered by- 

 Mr. Arthur Coventry. I do not think the 

 Prince bought him until after this (the horse 

 originally belonged to Mr. Mackenzie of 

 Kintail), but he was in the Royal stables 

 when started for the Grand National of 1884, 

 and was made favourite. He was trained 

 and ridden by John Jones of Epsom, but fell 

 when going strongly. A remarkably good 

 performance on the part of The Scot was his 

 safely getting the big course at Liverpool, 

 and finishing in the first five, when only 

 four years old. Fred Webb, the famous flat 

 race jockey, rode him, and showed that he 

 was as much at home across a stiff" country 

 as he is over the Rowley mile. 



Chimney Sweep, who lived and died in 

 Jones's charge, was a wonder at jumping, 

 and Jones told me that the old Sweep had 

 never made a mistake but once in his 

 patriarchal career ; he was nineteen years 

 old when he died. He seemed to me in 

 dropping his forefeet over a fence exactly 



