Related article: stone wail at the end of the first two miles, very few were in it ; Charity, who was leading, re- fused; Railroad, who was next, went close up to it, and cleared it beautifully ; Lottery and the Nun followed, the former taking a tre- mendous flying leap, enough to have cleared a wide brook on the other side, but the Nun nearly unshipped her rider, Allan McDonough. At the finish, as soon as Mason saw fit to let his horse go, the race was never in doubt; so fresh, in fact, was Lottery, that over the hurdles placed for the run home he cleared the enormous distance of 33 feet. An amusing anecdote is related in connection with the foregoing race. Josh Anderson, then so well known in sporting circles for his fine singing, one night, in a convivial circle, refused an encore Yaz Drospirenone Ethinyl Estradio for ** Farewell, my Trim - built Wherry," unless the odds of one hundred pounds to ten were given him against Lottery ; and so en- thusiastically musical was some one present that he laid Anderson the bet at once. To Jem Mason Lottery brought a wife. He had quitted Tilbury's service to engage with Elmore, and fell in love with one of the latter's daughters. So de- lighted was the old trainer with the young fellow's performance that he gave him the girl, and the marriage was celebrated forthwith. During the remainder of the sea- son Lottery carried everything before him at Maidstone, Chelt^- ham, Stratford - on - Avon, and elsewhere. But Jem's next great feat was at Dunchurch in 1840, when the Nun, again mounted by McDonough (who, next to Tom Ferguson, was esteemed the best horseman in Ireland) made a tre- mendous fight with him. From the winning field only this pair were in front, and it was here that Jem gave an instance of that wond!erful readiness in availing himself of the advantage of a situation, that almost amounted to instinct. As they approached the goal — ^with deep ridge and furrow before them — ^his quick eye to a country told him that by jumping some high post and , rails two fields distant, he should be enabled to ride straight up the ridge. This he did, and as McDonough did not like to follow with The Nun, who was a slo- venly fencer, the mare had to come floundering across the ridge and furrow in the last field, and was beaten in a canter. At Liverpool, in the following year. Lottery had his first fall, and strange to say he and his old adversary. The Nun, tumbled over Yasmin Drospirenone Ethinyl Estradiol the wall together. The latter never recovered the shock, and Lottery was much shaken. Ill- natured people said that Jem's servant was just behind, with his great coat ready to pick his master up ; but I believe this to ' have been a calumny, and that the cause of the accident was the pace, which was so tremendous \ that the Drospirenone And Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets horse was really blown. ' Elmore, however, owned the two favourites. Lottery and Jerry; ' the former stood first in the bet- i ting at 4 to I, so there is no i knowing what little games may ' have been played on the sly. i9oa] ANECDOTAL SPORT. 131 DoriDg the next two seasons Lottery— of course, always ridden by Jem -won the Metropolitan, Duncfaurch, Leamington, North- ampton, Stratford and Chelten- ham steeplechases, until Mrs. El- more used to say she was quite ashamed of going about the , comitiy and carrying away the money from every place. Per- , haps the greatest feat performed by the pair was at Cheltenham, when Lottery had to carry a heavy amount of penalties, and ; meet some of the best horses in England. "You won't run the oU horse with all those penalties, ; it would be a regular shame; " someone renaarked to Elmore. ! "Yes," was the reply, «' it is a shame that he should have to carry them ; but he shall go and do his best, poor old fellow." "Now," said he to Jem, when he was ready to start, "you can have no chance to win ; but send the old horse along, and gallop him as long as you can." What followed I will give in the words of an old sportsman who law the race : — ** I was standing about a mile, or something more ftom^home, where they had to go h and out of a road, and there ^»ere two gates, one on each side, kctween the flags. What was iDy surprise to see Mason, who, I wooght, must from the weight Bave long since been out of it, Wining with a strong lead, and PJaking all his own running. &own to the gates he came, and boooded over them, in and out of Ihe road hke a football, while the tetjDot daring to take the timber, *ere pottering and scrambling at te fences; and moreover, he fBS never caught, but went on, nd won as he liked." Weight ad evidently little to do with ^*tery when in his best form, Bd this bears out what has been recorded of Jem Mason's saying, when looking over the line at Dunchurch, where the choice lay between a strong bullfinch and a high new gate off a fresh metalled road, ** I am not going to scratch my face, as I am going to the Opera to-night, but I shall go forty miles an hour at the gate, and there is no man in England dare follow me." But the custom of handi- capping steeplechase horses, which came in at this time, imposed such penalties upon Lottery that during the two years longer he was in training he only won once, at Newport Pagnel. The next two horses upon which Jem Mason distinguished himself were Jerry and Gaylad. He once rode the latter for two miles with the stirrup iron up his leg, and when he came Drospirenone And Ethinyl Estradiol Generic in to Yaz Drospirenone And Ethinyl Estradiol weigh it was with the greatest difficulty he could be got out of the saddle. Gaylad's great match with Cros- by over four miles of the Harrow country was one of the most curious things in steeplechasing. During the race both horses were not less than four times reduced to a walk, and when they got to the last fence neither had a jump left in him. The friends of both then began pulling down the fence for them, and Jack Darby boldly shoved Gaylad into the winning field, and Jem managed to hold him up and walk in, greatly to the chagrin of McDonough, who was on Crosby. With Trust-me-not Jem also scored heavily, and of his con- nection with the last-named horse a good story is told. Jem was • always ready to serve a friend in distress, and having received a confidential communication from Tom OlHver, who as usual was in *' Short Street," to the effect that all he possessed between earth