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CHAPTER VII 



" And so 'twill be when we are gone, 

 The Saddling bell will still ring on." 



Resuming the tete-a-tete, we come to the closing period 

 of the " fifties," when the Osbornes and the stable were 

 in a flourishing state. The tale is thus continued by 

 the chief actor: — 



" So far as concerned Ashgill in '59," con- 

 tinues " Master John," " we had a good year, 

 Red Eagle, ridden by Harry Grimshaw, winning 

 the Cambridgeshire for us. Bred and owned 

 by my father, he was by Birdcatcher out of 

 First Rate, by Melbourne. Grimshaw about 

 this time was connected with my father, and 

 had already made his mark as a ligM-weight. 

 He came to Ashgill as a boy, and remained 

 there till '61 or '62. The next vear Moorcock, 

 ridden by Tom Chaloner, won us the Liverpool 

 Cup, Red Eagle also winning a race or two, 

 afterwards being sold to go to Russia. Tom 

 Chaloner came to the stable in 1852; he was 

 then very light, and rode a lot of our horses 

 for several years. Speaking of jockeys that 

 have been connected with Ashgill, there was 

 William Abdale, Bearpark — he went abroad to» 



