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Special appreciation should be accorded to M/S. The past presidents of the club, M/S. Gimme Five a 25/1 chance was trying his hardest at halfway to get on terms with the leaders at one time brushing past Earth Summit taking on the 13th fence but C. Llewellyn on second thoughts had to swerve right on the outside to avoid him and the falling horses. As heads were turned for home having negotiated the water jump for the last time it was Earth Summit in the lead and the gelding drawing clear on the run-in left others in the cold winning by 11 or more lengths. Two combined team has uptodate collected £122,882 as prize money having won races including Handicap Steeplech-ases over a career run of 33 races excluding the 1998 Grand National which fetched him a record £300,000. Trained by A.L. Moore in Co Kildare, Ireland, and ridden by C.O'Dwyer, the 8-year-old who had amassed £92,513 in stake money todate and having unseated the rider at his latest start at Naas Ireland in a race won by Opera Hat jumped well Saturday last and having got a head start had to beat off a sustained challenge from P. Webber's Flying Instructor who gave him a torrid time at the finish.

Then came the supporting big race of the day, the Martell Aintree Hurdle, a Grade One event run over 20 furlongs and worth £75,000 in which the raging hotpot the Champion Hurdle winner Istabraq met his Waterloo in Martin Pipe trained Pridwell who beat him in a tight finish by a head. Istabraq lay handy upto 8 flights from home and then sensing danger from behind took up the running. St. Mellion Fairway crept up from behind in the dying stages to take fourth place while Gimme Five could manage only fifth place. R. Dunwoody ridden by Samlee finished third while St. Mellion Fairway taken by Andrew Thornton filled up the fourth berth. 11 long looking lengths from a plodding Suny Bay ridden by Graham Bradley. The Grand National day began with Gerry Balding's 5-year-old Bellator successfully taking the opener - the Cordon Bleu Handicap Hurdle from Advocat by 27 lengths just drawing away from the nearest pursuer sending the punters off to a good start.Having unfortunately unseated rider at his last attempt at Cheltenham on March 17 Bellator ridden by Brian Fenton made every post a winning one, the young rider smiling away as he passed the winning post in a common canter.

But A.P. McCoy on Pridwell marking time well upto that point brought his ride and kept him within striking distance and once the pressure was on after the penultimate flight caught up the runaway favourite and beat him to the post in taking style though he won it by only a head. Race number two, the Martell Red Rum Chase, a limited handicap worth £40,000 over 12 fences of the treacherous Aintree track was fought out neck and neck upto the winning post with Jeffell getting the day in a photo-finish from Flying Instructor (J.A. And keep in mind the winner Jeffell for another win this time at Fairyhouse, Ireland on the Irish Grand National day. The greatest steeplechasing event in the world, the Grand National Handicap Steeplechase 1998 sponsored by Martell Brandy and run at Aintre, Liverpool, Saturday last saw N. Twiston Davis trained Earth Summit (C. Earth Summit owned by S.P. As the 37 horse field got off Earth Summit was seen tugged behind the early leaders with rider C. Llewellyn content to bide his time, as he was jumping the big fences perfectly.

The others were strung away nearly 25 lengths behind. Yet he cut down from 12/1 to 7/1 Saturday last and to the surprise of all hammered the 37 horse event by 11 lengths others sprawled out behind in almost a procession. But I have talked with several golfers of great experience and calm judgment, who say that they are quite unable to decide in their own minds whether, putting Vardon out of the question, young Tommy Morris, Bob Ferguson, and David Strath were better or worse than Taylor, Herd, and Park. It would be absolutely impossible to play a good game with the feather balls which are exhibited as curiosities in some club rooms, as it would be at cricket to play a good innings with Robinson's bat, of colossal weight in the blade and very thin handle, which you may see at Lords. Ratnayake, Tissa Almeida and Siri Perera devoted most of their time for the betterment of the club.

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