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hunter" — The second Earl of Durham and "Old John" — 

 A learned student of blood — Beginning of the Lambton 

 stud — A bunch of celebrities — The Wizard and Warlock — 

 Stark's great struggle with The Wizai'd — The Prussians 

 get the Wizard — Mr. Lambton 's school — "Old John," the 

 Dvike of Leeds, and Lord Chesterfield, "the magnificent" — 

 Octavian, Priam, and Zinganee at Bretby — The Chifneys 

 and " The Escape " affair — The Chifney rush — Zinganee 

 and the Chifneys — -Priam and the Chifneys — Priam's Derby 

 — After Priam's Derby ; decline of the Chifneys' star — 

 "Old John" quits Bretby; birth of "Our Johnnie"— 

 Ashgill tenanted by "Old John" in '37 — His first three 

 racers — Wrestler, Orcus, and Miss Bowe — The latter 

 bought by Lord Stanley for 400 guineas. — John Eobei't and 

 Sir James Boswell — Fobert and Murphy's rivalry — General 

 Chasse and Touchstone — The brothers Dawson at Brecon- 

 gill — Its rich turf history — Mat Dawson's first visit to 

 Middleham — The Dawsons in a rich winning vein — Some 

 of their aristocratic patrons and the clinkers they trained — 

 Lord Glasgow at Middleham — Career of the Dawsons at 

 Middleham — "Cocky little Mat's" first Derby nag — Tom 

 Dawson's first horse — His stud grows — Lord Glasgow and 

 his private trainers — The " classics " come to Middleham 

 and the Dawsons — Touchstone better than The Flving 

 Dutchman or West Australian — Ashgill in '41 — The Duke of 

 Westminster a patron — Prices of racers seventy years ago, - 20 



CHAPTER IV 



In the " forties " — Increase of the Ashgill haras — "Johnnie's" first 

 mount in '46 a failure — Miss Castling breaks down— An 

 industrious family — Mrs. Osborne and her broom — " Young 

 Johnnie " begins to work — -Purchase of Annette with Agnes 

 by Clarion — Her ti'ial with Cranbrook — " Old John " fancies 

 her — Produce of Agnes — Some account of her descendants — 

 Polly Agnes's produce — Lily Agnes, Ormonde, and Orme — 

 "Lily's" retirement to Eaton and death in '99— "Mr. John's" 

 recital of the " Agnes " family — " Lily's " performances — 

 Alice Hawthorn and her exploits — Death of Touchstone, the 

 "King of the Turf" — "Alice" one of the greatest mares 



