AND TIMES OF JOHN OSBORNE 415 



CARLISLE MEETING— Wednesday, 1st July, 1891. 



Eglinton Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 1 ft. (to the fund), with 100 sovs. added. 



About one mile. 



Sir R. Jardine's Lodore, by Kendal — Currer Bell, 



8 St. 13 lb., J. Osborne ft 



Mr. T. Holmes's Dissenter, by Chapel Royal — Harriet 



Laws, 8 St. 13 lb., S. Chandley f t 



Betting — 11 to i on Dissenter, who made the running to the distance, where 

 Lodore joined issue, a tine race home between the pair ending in a dead 

 heat. 



Deciding Heat. 



Betting— 11 to 8 on Dissenter. Dissenter again forced the pace to the distance, 

 where Lodore challenged, and the result of another exciting finish was a 

 second dead heat. The stakes were then divided. 



As will be seen from the above, the Eglinton Stakes . 

 resolved itself into a match between Tupgill and Spigot 

 Lodge, Lodore doing battle for the former, and 

 Dissenter, who the week before had run a smart colt 

 in the North Derby at Gosforth Park, for the latter 

 stable. Lodore also ran in that North Derby, and had 

 finished lengths away from Dissenter, so that for the 

 Eglinton Stakes partisans of the Spigot Lodge colt were 

 quite justified in laying the odds of 11 to 4 on Mr. 

 Thomas Holmes's colt. But, as the sequel proved, the 

 meeting of the pair produced two finishes worth going 

 a hundred miles to witness. Chandley on Dissenter had 

 to make his own running, and while he was sniggling 

 at him all the way round the bottom turn into the 

 straight, John Osborne, on the Tupgill colt, was 

 travelling patiently and smoothly at an interval of about 

 a length and a half away. Below the distance " Master 

 John " was seen " screwing " himself together — always 

 a sure and certain sign in his races that he meant 

 mischief — and bringing Lodore up stride by stride, he 

 got fairly on terms some thirty yards from the judge's 

 box, actually getting Lodore's head in front some 

 twenty yards from the chair. Then Chandley responded 



