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"Never a horse foaled like Blair Athol'' — Saunterer's 

 Goodwood Cup— Death of Lord Glasgow, followed by Lord 

 Derby's — Death of John Stephenson, the leviathan — Dr. 

 Shorthouse's sketch— The "Two Thousand" of '69— Pre- 

 tender and " Johnnie's " triumph, : - - - - 173 



CHAPTER XII 



Pretender's Derby — Rivalry with Pero Gomez — John Day's 

 opinion of Belladrum— " All Yorkshire" on "Johnnie" and 

 Pretender — "Amphion's" prophecy — The day of battle 

 arrives — Mr. Graham and The Drummer — Belladrum the 

 idol of the multitude — John Porter and Wells fancy Pero 

 Gomez — The race : a jiggety jog pace and then a cracker — 

 Terrific finish between Pretender and Pero Gomez ; the 

 former and Osborne win the Derby by a head — Wells 

 surprised at the verdict — Description of the race — Sir Joseph 

 Hawley's objection to the winner — He loses popularity and 

 is stigmatised — The "Pretender" panic — Excitement at 

 Tattersall's — The interval between the Derby and St. Leger 

 — Triumph of Pero Gomez at Doncaster— The opening of 

 '69— Death of Johnny O'Brien— John Osborne's description 

 of the Two Thousand, Derby, and St. Leger, - - - 192 



CHAPTER XIII 



Pretender our hero's only Derby winner — The cause explained — 

 His riding for Tupgill — Sir Robert Jardine and Mr. A. 

 Johnstone's patronage— Present decay of Middleham— Lord 

 Eglinton, Lord Glasgow, and Admiral Harcourt its former 

 mainstays — Migration of owners and horses to the South — 

 "Money makes the mare to go"— "Old Croft," William 

 I' Anson, and Tom Dawson — Agility's career — A useful two- 

 year-old— Into the " seventies "—Thorn, Mendip, and Grand 

 Flaneur— Mr. R. N. Batt's patronage of Ashgill— Purchase 

 of Grand Flaneur— "A cheap lot "—Thorn, a handsome 

 generous horse — Some of his achievements — Mr. and Mrs, 

 R. N. Batt— A high-spirited dashing Irishwoman— Her 

 penchant for driving — Anecdote of Mr. Greer — "A bit up 



