AND TIMES OF JOHN OSBORNE 235 



Friar, Hieroglyphic, Apology, Lily Agnes, Benedictine, 

 Chimes, Nella, and Islam, aU able to win races. 



Next shifting the scene to Doncaster September 

 Meeting of 74, we found Thorn beaten by Blenheim 

 and Wallsend in the " FitzwiUiam," but John came out 

 on top by winning the Champagne Stakes on Mr. 

 Vyner's Camballo. Thorn, on the St. Leger day, gave 

 him a three-quarters of a length victory over Thunder 

 and others in the Cleveland Stakes ; then he triumphed 

 in the very next race— the St. Leger— on Apology ; and 

 W. Piatt steered Lily Agnes home from Lilian in Her 

 Majesty's Plate. Thorn the following day, in John's 

 hands, succumbed by a head to Thunder ni the 

 Alexandra Plate ; but in the succeeding event— a sweep- 

 stake of £470— he scored on Holy Friar, who defeated 

 CambaUo, the Champagne winner, by half a length, thus 

 gaining for himself the reputation in the minds of many 

 ^ood iudges of being the best two-year-old of the year. 

 Grand Flaneur failed in the Portland Plate. John rode 

 Chimes into second place behind the smart Aventuriere 

 in the Park Hill Stakes ; and Lily Agnes wound up a 

 great week for the stable by capturing the Doncaster 

 Cup by a neck from Scamp, with Lihan a bad third— 

 W. Chaloner having the mount on Mr. Snarry's mare, 

 as John himself could not get down to the weight. 



