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Dunstan Times, Issue 480, 30 June 1871, Page 3

GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE-CHASE The racing season in-England may Jbe said lo commence -with the Liverpool Spring Meeting, and interest [to be fairly awakened by the “Steeplechase Derby,” as it ia called ■the Grand National, ran on the Aintree course. An usual amount of interest was centered in the Grand National this year, froth the expected size of the field, and the character of horses engaged in it; and as it was run on the dsy of the wedding of the Princes* Louise with the Marquis of Lorn*, which was made almost a general holiday in Liverpool, the concourse of people on the course, always large, was this year without precedent. Foremost in the betting was the ve'eran Pearl Diver, the winner of many hard - contested races, handicapped at list. 51h; The Lamb, who won the same race in 1868, weighted Ihe same; The Colone l , the winner both in 1869 and 1870 with the top weight of 12st 81b; The Doctor, who ran second to the Colonel last year, list 131b. ; Dispatch, 10 t ; and a long string of others, all being aged horses. Before starting, Pearl Diver had a few points the call of the Lamb, the heavy weight put on The Colonel extinguishing, m general opinion, his chance of making such a coup as pulling off the great steeplechase of the season three years in succession. Lord Poulett was so certain of the success of his horse The Lamb, that the evening before the race he wrote to numerous friends, telling them he was confident his horse would win, and the event proved he was not mistaken, Twenty- five horses sta' tcd', The Lamb was one of the first, three throughout the race, going as straight as nil arrow, and taking all his feaps in the finest possible style, and won easily by three lengths ; Dispatch second, Scarrington third, Pearl Diver fourth. Both first and second horses were Irish bred, and the joy of the Patlanders, who were very numerous on the course, scarcely knew bounds. It is the opinion of the best judges that the winner is the best horse that ever won a steeplechase in England. Ho is by Zouave, out of a half-bred mare.

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