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of the century — Story of her early life — Her owuer and 

 trahier — Produce of Alice Hawthorn — Caller Ou unlike 

 " Old Alice," - - 40 



CHAPTER V 



"Johnnie's" first visit to Catterick races — His first winning 

 mount on Billy from Brigg — The days of running in 

 "heats" — He wins the Newton and Liverpool cups in '49 — 

 Some Ashgill nags — Ada Mary — First year of the Eglinton 

 Stakes — Pity the Blind and Bon-Mot — " Mr. John's " 

 marvellous memory — Contemporary jockeys in the " fifties " 

 — Liverpool Cup of '49 — Bastilion and Hind of the Forest — 

 A peep into the Calendar of '49 — Voltigeur and " The 

 Dutchman's" match — The first Flying Dutchman's Handi- 

 cap at York — Fifty years ago — Some of the jockeys of the 

 day — Voltigeur and Russborough's dead heat — Members of 

 the Jockey Club in '50 — Some of the "Lords of the 

 Harem " half a century ago — Ashgill entering the " fifties " 

 — "Old John" misses Warlock and The Wizard and Mr. 

 Anthony Nichol the "lucky man "—The flighty " Agneses " 

 — Sale of Miss Agnes and "Old Agnes" — "Johnnie" meets 

 Palmer the Poisoner — His career as a racing man and a 

 recreant — The Chicken, Doubt and Nettle — Palmer "a nice 

 agreeable man to talk to" — "Jock o' Oran " — Manganese's 

 "One Thousand" — She upsets John Day's "good thing" — 

 Sketch of John Jackson's career — He buys Saunterer and 

 becomes "Emperor of the Ring" — His connection svith 

 northern stables — His winnings over Ellington and Blair 

 Athol — Nobbling Blair Athol — His lameness before the 

 Derby — Old James Colpitts discovers the cause — Wm. 

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CHAPTER VI 



Still in the " fifties " — Saunterer and Augury — Blink Bonny 's 

 early efforts ; she is beaten by Augury, but Lady Hawthorn 

 beats both — Tom Chaloner at Ashgill as first jockey — Lady 

 Tatton, Fisherman, and Yorkshire Grey — Saunterer visits 



