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WONDERFUL STEEPTECHASING VETERANS. The aa.iat.lea is often asked wladlur Manifesto hoils the record for the Bomber of tiaaea be raa in the Liverpool Craad NatloaaL The old hero ran fouiih to Will Man from Borneo Decider— WUd Duck, ran unplaced to The Soarer. won th. following year 197. was an absentee in Is.is. WOn again in 1889. Altogether, Manifesto ran eight llna - I the Natloaal, winning twice, third three times and oaee fourth. Astonishing as this record reads, II i not untune, for in tin earlier history ol th. i:m Peter Simple had a more surprising sequence, that bone starling eleven times, winning twice, second one, third twice and fourth three times. Here are the i. cords of the twain for comparison: Manifesto — 1V.».*i, fourth: 1890. unplaced; lVi?, w..n: 1890, won: loon, third; IMS, third. I.iu:, third; 1904, unplaced. Peter Simp!. — 1841, third; 1842, third: 1M:;. fourth: 1MI. unplaced; 1848, second; 1846, unplaced; W. . win: 1850, fourth: 1851, unplaced: 1853, won; is:, t. fourth.
