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I j i j LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL ENTRIES. Now that the nominations for the leading cross country races •!* the spring have been publish. -.1 curiositj will be satisfied and farther material sup-plied for discussion and comment. Taken as a whole, their .numerical strength compares favorabb with previous years, and though our supply of steeplechasers of good 1 lass i- meager there is no lac k of promising recruits lo supplement those burses thai have been hurdling for sometime past. Attention will, of coarse, be chiefly directed to the Grand National n- the must important steeplechase of this or anj other country, even though it he eelipsed in point of aluc by an event of ;i similar character In franco, and here It is found that Hi entries are half a-docen in excess of a twelvemonth ago. Tie- onl] prevb is winner entered is Jerry M„ and whether or do be be destined to repeal his j,-tory of last year be stands out by himself in point of Quality, and is undoubtedly the best chaser hi the country. Sir c. Assheton-Smitb*s great home i supported by stabl • companions in Covertcuat an ; flaxseed. Ioieigii patronage baa been accorded the event and a novelty is the entrj of the Austrian-bred horse Jantagata, the prop- rty of M. Bartooch. while an American one is Hlghhridge. The French sportsman M. 11. de Milium Is represented by Trianon in. an 1 Pompadour IF. and as ■ horse from the other side of the channel has already been successful at Am tree it maj not do to hold French representatives as negligible quantities. Familiar names crop up In Caubecn. Thowlpln. BaUinaily, Bloodstone, Bally-hackle. Axle Im. Lord Rivers, Bridge IV.. Blow pipe. Prince Hugo, Midas. Bedgrove. Clondalkln. Regent, Ballymacad, Carsey. and Shnnawan among others. As usual . maaj of these engaged wonld have no chance over the long and tiring Liverpool course With any weight, and the Work of the hand; cappi r must i e mainly directed to the nHotmral if imp sts for those thai have gone the country be fore. The Grind National has oalj fallen to the share of 1 Bve-year-oid on Ave occasions -the last being Lutteur III. in 1908 and bat one bone of thai age Pompadour II. 1 is entered on the present ores -ion. Will la- follow in the footsteps of the French lued Lutteur ill. on April t next? The weights will be Issued January 30. London Sportsman.
