314 ashgill; or, the life 



Fandango horse. Golden Pledge also ran a dead 

 heat with a filly belonging to Count Lagrange 

 at Newmarket in a sweepstake of 50 sovereigns, 

 Ditch Mile, and I won the decider — Harry 

 Grimshaw being on Count Lagrange's. I think 

 Jim Snowden would ride Lord Zetland's when 

 it ran the dead heat. At Carlisle, in 1891, I 

 rode in a double dead heat; Chandley rode Mr. 

 Thos. Holmes's Dissenter, and I rode Sir R. 

 Jardine's Lodore. Mr. Holmes wouldn't divide 

 after the first dead heat, but came to terms after 

 the second. I rode two dead heats in one day at 

 Gosforth on one of Wm. I'Anson's, and Jim 

 Snowden rode one of Tom Green's. Snowden 

 beat me in the decider. 



" Once at Goodwood I rode a filly of Lord 

 Bradford's, and Geo. Barrett rode a chestnut 

 filly of the Duchess of Montrose's, and we dead- 

 heated. On running off, I won. In 1865, at 

 Newcastle, I dead-heated with Cathedral and a 

 horse of Mr. M'Kenzie's called Oppressor, over 

 three miles. They ran it off, and Cathedral 

 won by a neck, both horses breaking down in the 

 race. Cathedral, who belonged to Mr. Hudson, 

 had a bit of a leg at the time. I didn't want Mr. 

 Hudson to run it off, but he wouldn't divide. 

 Cathedral was patched up and won two or three 

 races after that, and was second in the Great 

 Northern Handicap the following year. The 

 last time he ran was in the Queen's Plate at 

 Liverpool, which he won by a head. He broke 

 down again that day, and shortly afterwards 

 went to the stud. I trained Cathedral myself." 



