"Yerra, that one'd make a steeplechaser if he got the trainin'," declared Murty, all his troubles forgotten.

The joy, too, of the engine-driver and the steeplechaser is upon us.

Horses are very sporting animals, and the love of competition is inherent in them all, from the hack to the steeplechaser.

Then gradually he slowed up his steeplechaser, jerking powerfully at the bridles.