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JERRY M A GREAT CHASER Though Jerry M the most recent winner of the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase was allotted 175 pounds he was all along accounted well handi ¬ capped In the long history of the race that weight had only twice before been l orne to victory namely by Cloister In the same ownership nineteen years ago and by Manifesto on the occasion of his second success in 1899 and it is maintained by some that the class of steeplechasers in those days was super ¬ ior to that of the present time Two years ago un ¬ der a similar burden Jerry M figured in a Dne per ¬ formance by running second to Jenkinstown lo which he was conceding 30 pounds and later in the season confirmed his excellence by an easy triumph over St Amour Sapientia Sauvenr Le Corse Sprinkle Me Journaliste Moonstruck Confrere CallcnlKMir and Or du IJbin in the Grand Steeple ¬ chase de Paris at Auteuil Subsequently some leg trouble supervened and nothing was seen in public of the son of Walmsgate until last January when he reappeared at Hurst Park and in his character ¬ istic briliant style won the Open Steeplechase beat ¬ ing Bloodstone and others but inasmuch as lie was receiving seven pounds that performance counted for little beyond showing that he was in form and that his protracted retirement had Impaired neither his action nor his fencing capabilities He Is now nine years old and at his best and It was a strong rec ¬ ommendation that in each of his previous essays he had jumped the Aintree fences without a mistake
