The fight for the Champion's Belt - Steeplechase over hedges and ditches to reach the fighting ground - John C. Heenan, Tom Sayers and the whole sporting party rushing headlong, pell-mell over everything, April 17th, 1860. 19th century illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

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