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with his old favourite winning his last race, 

 and SO was I, you can well imagine, because he 

 was rather a favourite of mine was old 

 Chippendale; in fact, I always liked a game 

 horse. If I mistake not, Chippendale was 

 found dead in his box on February 14, 1893." 

 Glancing at Chippendale's career, one quite under- 

 stands Osborne's affection for him. At the outset of his 

 three-year-old season he won the Prince's Park Plate 

 at Liverpool, ran unplaced to Lartington (trained at 

 Ashgill for the late Mr. Harry Bragg), but came off 

 trumps in the Ascot Derby. At this same meeting he 

 gave John a winning mount in the Hardwicke Stakes, 

 beating Archer on Silvio (who had won the Derby 

 for Lord Falmouth two years before), in a tremendous 

 finish, Lord Bradford's three-year-old, in receipt of 

 18 lbs. for the difference of age between the pair, 

 winning by a head. His next essay was in the Great 

 Yorkshire Stakes, carrying 7 st. 4 lbs., running unplaced 

 to Dresden China, of the same age, but conceding her 

 18 lbs. 



Just prior to this race, Dresden China was bought 

 in the ring at Doncaster from her breeder and ov^mer, 

 Mr. Walker, by Mr. Charles Perkins, much to the 

 chagrin of her trainer, the late Harry Hall, of Spigot 

 Lodge. " Old Harry " was keeping her as a " rod in 

 pickle " for the Cesarewitch, for which he had backed 

 her to win him a competency. Her victory in the race 

 exploded his scheme, and that same evening he shed 

 tears of disappointment in Mr. Richard Johnson's 

 office, proclaiming strongly against Mr. Walker for 

 effecting the sale with Mr. Charles Perkins. Chippen- 

 dale later in the autumn won the Cesarewitch, carrying 

 7 St. 5 lbs., ridden by the ill-fated W. M'Donald, 



