AND TIMES OF JOHN OSBORNE 271 



Throughout the season of 76 Thorn and Grand 

 Flaneur were still doing good service for Ashgill. 

 Speaking of the patronage of the Vyners, it is a fact 

 that John Osborne, senr., trained horses for Mr. Clare 

 Vyner. Mr. Robert Vyner afterwards came on the 

 scene, there being a sort of confederac}^ between the two 

 brothers and Mr. Charles Newcomen. The}^ also 

 engaged William Sanderson in the capacity of private 

 trainer, and he had a few horses of theirs under his 

 care at Hambleton. Mr. Clare Vyner continued his 

 patronage of Ashgill to the last, and, like his still living 

 brother Robert, proved a most loyal supporter of the 

 Osbornes. 



Speaking of Glastonbury, owned by Mr. Clare 

 Vyner, John remarks — 



" He was very bad as a two-year-old. The 

 next season he won three races, taking the Great 

 Northern as a four-year-old, and the next season 

 in 78 the Northumberland Plate. Rarely a year 

 passed away about this period without me having 

 a mount in the so-called ' Pitman's Derby ' on 

 Newcastle Town Moor, but somehow or other I 

 could never ride the winner of a race which often 

 enough I tried to win. Glastonbury's career 

 ended after his accident at Goodwood, being no 

 use for racing afterwards. Mr. Clare Vyner 

 made a present of him to his neighbour. Lord 

 Leconfield, for a hunting sire. 



" In '78 we had Sir Amyas Leigh, who, as a 

 two-year-old, won the Seaton Delaval at New- 

 castle; also Palmbearer, second in the Derby; 

 Lartington, a Manchester Cup and Cumberland 

 Plate winner ; and Fabius, winner of the Salf ord 

 Borough Handicap. 



