94 ASHGILL. 



The Osbornes have been at Ashsfill for 53 

 years, and. we beheve we are correct in stating 

 that no trainer in England has so long a con- 

 nection with his present abode. Other trainers 

 have changed their quarters from time to time, 

 some have migrated to Newmarket, some have 

 gone farther south, but the Osbornes have stuck 

 to the place which tlieir energy, enterprise, and 

 industry have made famous. Sportsmen are 

 proverbially conservative in their ideas, and love 

 to linger over the traditions of the past; and this 

 feeling would undoubtedly accentuate the genuine 

 pleasure which would be felt by all classes of the 

 sporting community should the Osbornes again 

 have in their charofe such a lot of hio^h-class race- 

 horses as the_y had in the seventies, and one or 

 two useful ones like old Grand Flaneur to pick 

 up a little towards travelling expenses. 



