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any prize is added the winner will
be liable to a penalty for the full
amount.
LlYerpool. — The Autumn Cup
is an event which gets a good
deal more talked about than do
other races of greater value, the
end of the season being near, and
there being little else in view.
Round about Liverpool itself little
else is talked about for days than
the ** coop " and its probable
winner. In four days we can get
through a good deal of racing, and
in autumn and spring it is well
diversified at Liverpool by means
of steeplechases and hurdle races.
Travelling by rail to Aintree, the
attendance seemed likely to be
small, but it became apparent
that the new. electric tram was
what was the matter. On the
second day we began with a sur-
prise, Fosco, whose day one
prematurely thought to be over,
showing something very much like
his old form, and winning the
Stewards* Plate quite easily. His
weight had been dropped ma-
terially, it being i4lbs. less than
when he ran in the same race last
year, so here was another instance
of misplaced leniency.
The Grand Sefton Steeplechase
is regarded as a first rehearsal
for the Grand National, and last
year it was won by Hidden Mys-
tery, whom even now people
speak of as the prospective winner
in March next. The class was
not quite up to last year's mark,
Cathal being top weight, vice
Drogheda. The betting in the
case of Bloomer was funny, for he
opened favourite, but drifted away
to 8 to I at the start, a much
longer price being on offer when
the horses were on their way.
Barsac was apparently the choice
between the two, and one heard
tales of Bloomer having done no
work, and being fat in conse-
quence. For a fat, unfit animal
he ran remarkably fast, and one
awaits with interest to see what
he will do when really wound up.
Hidden Repaglinide Tablets Mystery will have to put
his best leg foremost, evidently.
Barsac ran Buy Repaglinide well enough, but
Bloomer was pulling over him in
the straight, and won easily. On
the third day Fosco came out with
10 lbs. extra on his back, and won
the Croxteth Plate rather more
easily than he won the day before,
so now there could be no doubt
about his return to form. Kemp-
ton Cannon, by the way, was the
jockey on each occasion. He was
inaugurating his accession to the
position of first jockey to Mr.
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Leopold de Rothschild, T. Loates
having retired from the profession.
Mr. de Rothschild could not have
made a better choice, and all I
wish him and his jockey is that
these two successes form an
augury of what is to come.
The Cup provided a good race,
and it was won by the bottom-
weight ; and why should not
bottom- weights win in their turn ?
It is of no avail now to say that
Japonica would have won but for
swerving. She probably swerved
from distress, and had Fabulist
got away better he would have
won more easily. Perhaps the
feature of the race was the flight
over the rails taken by Halsey oflf
the back of Sirenia by conse-
quence of a bump with Aqua-
scutum, when they were well in
the straight. It was a case of
trying for the rails, Sirenia on the
inside, and, from the way Halsey
was thrown, the collision must
have been a severe one. Falls on
the flat were frequent at this
meeting. On the second day Otto
Madden's mount fell, and Madden
rode no more. On Friday, in the
Croxteth Plate, the alarming spec-
tacle was seen of McNaughton
flying off the back of Nippon
amidst the field of horses, and by
the most merciful chance Filassier,
who was in his wake, contrived to
avoid him. Later on J. Reiff got
a fall. The Liverpool Repaglinide Metabolite manage-
ment have thoughtfully provided
a horse ambulance, i.e., an ambu-
lance drawn by a horse. If it
were kept somewhere up the
course, instead of in the paddock,
it would arrive more expeditiously
on the scene. Fortunately none
of the falls resulted in very serious
injury to the jockeys, but Sirenia
got a nasty knock on the frontal
bone.
Liverpool seems destined to be
a troublous meeting for Lester
Reif!. Last year the stewards
fined him £^o for being late at
the post ; this year they had him
before them (under what rule is
not apparent) to ask him why he
did not beat Gerolstein at Don-
caster two months previously on
The Scotchman XL, since he was
able to do so at the same weights
at Liverpool. Naturally enough,
Reiff could not explain why two
horses, one a three-year-old, the
other a five-year-old, did not run
the same animals at an interval of
two months, under entirely dif-
ferent conditions of going, to say
nothing of the furlong difference
in the distance. The explanation
was not deemed satisfactory, so
the puzzle was made over to the
Stewards of the Jockey Club for
unravelment. They, of course,
found no difficulty in under-
standing the different running,
and Reiff went on with his riding
at Derby.
Derby* — When we remember
what we have from time to time
suffered from rain and mist at
Derby, where, last year, fog cut
short the November meeting by
two races, we were very thankfiil
for such fine weather as was
vouchsafed. In a hunting district
who minds a little rain and, just
to show their contempt for it.
Lord Harrington and a contingent
in pink went out with the hounds
on Saturday morning. The gloom
which the war losses spread over
the earlier meetings of the year
had somewhat evaporated and
large house parties at Chatswortb
and elsewhere caused the County
Stand and Paddock to look some-
thing like their old selves. It was
also quite Derby November form
to see two fields of twenty-five
each, and others of twenty-two,
twenty-one and twenty, respec-
tively, the total number of runners
for the eighteen races being 273 —
an average of over fifteen per race.
This equals the wonderful figures
1900.]
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made by Warwick and Manchester
combined in 1898. Quality was
not too prominent, save in the Cup
in which race Innocence, leni-