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MAY HAVE GRAND NATIONAL CANDIDATE. New York, December 10. It is just iosslble that Alex Smith Cochran will be represented in th Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase next March if his horse Postboy shows any signs of Grand National form. In speaking oT unbeaten horses l.ist season the. Dublin correspondent of the London Sporting Life savsr "The only unbeaten horses during the season were Ballaghtobin, the three-year-old Aquafortis, and the five-year-old chaser Post-bov. The three-year-old ran. only twict in April and September and won. good races on each occasion. Postboy, too. performed but twice and has not been seen In public since March. It was fully Intended that he should have taken part in tie Lancashire Handicap Steeplechase at Manchester last Easter .Monday, but he gave far froin a fault less performance In his lipniediatcly previous outing. It is also the intention to enter Postboy in the Grand National of 1015, ;is his American owner. Mr. Cochran, is ambitious to win the greatest jumping contest."
