SUMMARY OF CONTENTS XXI 



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" Ton my word, there's my luck again " — " Not our Bessie's 

 form" — "Johnnie" asleep and awake, - . - . 366 



CHAPTER XX 



An old rival — Jim Snowden — His career and death — His belief 

 in Blair Athol — Getting " fit " — " Bleend horse and bleend 

 jockey winnet dee" — Jockey's pensions — The Pontefract 

 accident — An objection — Death of Mr. " Sandy " Young — A 

 grand sportsman — Morning gallops at Gosforth Park — Billy 

 Nichol's "five things to knaa" — Master "John" caught 

 napping — Objection to Gloriation, 390 



CHAPTER XXI 



A national testimonial to our hero — The Daily Telegraph^ s 

 tribute — High-minded — Courageous — Modest-mannered — 

 honest — The Liverpool accident of '91 — Ashgill inmates of 

 that season — Lodore and Dissenter's double dead -heat at 

 Carlisle — Two great struggles between "Mr. John" and 

 Seth Chandley — Fred Bates and Tom Holmes won't divide — 

 Mr. Ford as mediator — Figaro II. and Lily Agnes's dead- 

 heat at Lincoln — John and Parry's desperate struggle — Mr. 

 Ford's description and verdict — " The two finest races I 

 ever saw " — Some account of Robert Osborne — Early efforts 

 as a jockey — Gamelad's rehearsal with Wild Dayrell — How 

 the trial impressed Robert Osborne — Harking back — Tommy 

 Lye — The Deformed — Pretender and Pero Gomez — The 

 spur — Apology's lameness — About roaring in horses — 

 Upleathan, Moorcock, and Northallerton — Atmosphere a 

 cause of roaring — Conformation — Dip-backed ones — Fan- 

 dango's dam — Shoulder action — Arabian and English horses 

 — Training: past and present methods — Charles Lund 

 loquitur — John Scott — Sweating and blood-letting — Horses 

 heavier in old days — Tom Dawson's notes lost and found, - 409 



CHAPTER XXII 

 Mr. "John" as a foxhunter — His falls in the field — Immunity 

 from savaging — Jockeys' earnings— Subtleties of jockeyship 



