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miles, to give, as he termed it, " an extra stretch to his 

 legs." 



When the accident at Pontefract on May 2, 1889, 

 interrupted John Osborne's career as a horseman, 

 there were fifteen runners for the Trial Stakes, Sir 

 Robert Jardine's Uam Var being Osborne's mount. 

 Entering the straight the horse crossed his legs and 

 fell, breaking his neck and fracturing both his forelegs, 

 and it was found that " Mr. John " had broken his left 

 collar bone, apart from being shaken. This mishap 

 prevented him riding the following day Mr. Vyner's 

 Minthe, by Camballo — Mint Sauce, in the One 

 Thousand Guineas, which she won in decisive style, 

 J. Woodburn being the fortunate jockey to get the 

 chance vdnning mount, in a field of fourteen runners, 

 of whom Mr. L. de Eothschild's Gagoul was a 15 to 8 

 favourite. Yet, crippled as he was by the accident, 

 John travelled overnight to Newmarket, and witnessed 

 the victor}^ of Minthe on the Wednesday afternoon, 

 so that he had some consolation for the ill-luck which 

 had befallen him. 



Manchester Summer Meeting found him so far re- 

 covered from the Uam Var mishap as to resume his 

 duties, with varying success, in the saddle. The three- 

 year-old Lily of Lumley, by Uncas or Thurio, out of 

 Lady of Lumley, had won a few races for Mr. Robert 

 Osborne, who bred her, and he now sold her to Mr. 

 Robert Vyner for 700 guineas, for whom she afterwards 

 proved a useful mare. The stable sent out further win- 

 ners in Strathpeffar, Nightcap, Miss Stanley, Crockery 

 filly, Fallow Chat, Redsand, Poet Close, Transept, 

 Tynesail, Prerogative, Collarette, Cornflower, Sedge 

 Chat, Spearmint, Wild Berry, Lilian, and Bumaby. 

 With many of their successes Osborne was associated 



