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GRAND NATIONAL WINNER CHEAP HORSE London Eng March 21 Jcnkinstown winner of the Grand National Steeplechase at Liverpool Friday is a bay gelding by Hackler Playmate so that from the sires side he has the very best chasing strain He was handicapped to carry 14o pounds so that Jerry if the top weight which finished second was making him the tremendous concession of thirty poun ls and this JOVOF four miles and SoG yards of heavy going told the tale Jenkinstown apiieared in the Hurst Park and Kempton meetings recently and the showing he made was not indicative that he would ever go the National course He pawed the air whea galloping and each time as he went off the course appeared to lie suffering from a string halt Tlie only thing tlie critics saw favorable about him was that he jumped big and big fencers as a rule do Well at Aintrec Jenkiiistoxvnhas always been an animal of moods and Friday must have Iteen one of liis good days He started last year and came a cropper quite early in the fray Tills chaser is noiv nine years of ago and has had a most peculiar career He was bought fora fow pounds about five years ago in Ireland and his present owner Stanley Howard bought him for a short figure Tills is the second sensational win for Howard In 1907 ho won the Grand National with Eremoii a liorse which ho purchased for 175 His colors are Eton jbUuj olfye green ssisli In coming within three lengths of the winnerJerry M carrying the top weight of 175 pounds proved himself the best steeplechaser of the preseint day
