•396 ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



as jockey. Redsand, by Silurian — Poetic, was a three- 

 year-old this season, and won at Manchester. Countess 

 Lilian, by Isonomy — Lady Lumley, credited Mr. Robt. 

 Osborne with the Newton Cup. John himself won the 

 Criterion Stakes at Goodwood on Mr. Robert Jardine's 

 Stronvar, and for the same owner he appropriated the 

 Drawing-room Stakes at the ducal fixture on Lord 

 Lome; also riding Tissaphernes into second place for 

 the Goodwood Stakes. Redsand succumbed to 

 Chitabob in the Great Foal Stakes at Redcar, before 

 that smart son of Robert the Devil gave way in his 

 preparation for the Derby. Minthe, with John up, was 

 second to Antibes for the Great Yorkshire Oaks, but 

 carried him home in the Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster, 

 a race on which his name is largely writ. Redsand won 

 1000-sovereigns race at Manchester, and Countess 

 Lilian a " Triennial " at headquarters. The four-year- 

 old Fallow Chat, by Hagioscope, out of Stone Clink, 

 ridden by H. Luke, took the Manchester November 

 Handicap for Mr. Vyner in a field of twenty, the 

 biggest handicap field of the year, and one of the 

 heaviest betting races ever known at New Barns. 

 Harry Luke had just returned to England after riding 

 in France, in time to get the mount on Fallow Chat. 

 He gave a fine display of pluck and perseverance in 

 getting Stone Clink's daughter home. Many a jockey 

 would have stopped riding when he found himself so 

 far last in the first half-mile, and not one rider in ten 

 would have gone through his horses as Luke did on 

 the far side. 



At the Carlisle Meeting this year "Mr. John" 

 figured in an objection. Mr. J. T. Crossley's Bitter 

 Sweet came in first for the Bective Welter, his moimt, 

 Mr. Fred Bates's Madame Judas, being second. On 



