72 ASHGILL. 



She wound up the season by winning a Free 

 Handicap at the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, 

 in which she gave Falkland Gibs, and a length 

 and a half beating, thus pretty clearly proving 

 that she was unlucky not to win the North Derby 

 at Newcastle. 



She only won three races in 1871, but the 

 following year she placed several Queen's Plates 

 to her owner's credit ; as well as the York Cup, in 

 which she beat Albert Victor, on whom odds of 

 four to one were betted, by a head. Her last 

 race was in the Queen's Plate at Edinburgh 

 where she broke down hopelessly. 



Durinof the four years she was racing;' she won 

 twenty-one races out of the fifty-three for which 

 she started, and the aggregate amount of her 

 winninofs is £6382. She died after she had been 

 at the stud four years, a great misfortune for 

 Mr. Vyner, who had purchased her at Mr. Gee's 

 sale. Her daughter, Lizzie Lindsay, is the dam 

 of Crowberry. 



Muddle, by Moulsey, was a moderate animal, 

 and could never win a race as a two-year- old. 

 After she was beaten in a Nursery at the 

 Hougfhton Meetino- Mr. Kinjjf cfrew tired of 

 her, and parted with her to Mr. Osborne. 

 She did not do much better for her new owner, 

 and only won him two or three unimportant 

 handicaps in the two years he raced her. She 

 was third to Cremorne and King Lud in the 



