AND TIMES OF JOHN OSBORNE 421 



Fred served his time to be an architect ; Sydney- 

 is a surgeon in the Royal Navy; Phihp, Fred, 

 and Ernest are here in the stables with me; 

 and Charles is in the Army and Navy^ Stores. 

 I have three daughters. 



" Very few jockeys are Hving now that were 

 riding when I first began in 1846. Yes, there's 

 William Abdale ; he is living at Richmond. He 

 rode his first race in 1840, on a horse called Little 

 Philip, which belonged to my father. George 

 Abdale is a great age now. When he left my 

 father he went to Lord George Bentinck, and 

 rode for him up to the time of his retirement, 

 about 1848. 



" Nearly fifty years ago I used to ride the 

 Deformed by Burgundy. She turned her toes 

 in very much, and it used to be said you could 

 wheel a barrow between her legs, she was so 

 bow-legged. She belonged to Mr. Copperthwaite 

 as a two-year-old and as a three-year-old up to 

 the spring, when Captain J. R. Scott bought 

 her at Nottingham for 1500 guineas. My father 

 got charge of her in '53, and took her to Good- 

 wood, and she ran well for the Stewards' Cup, 

 with me on her back, with 8 st. up. That race 

 was won by Longbow, who was out of my 

 father's mare Miss Bowe, who also threw Strong- 

 bow and Iris. The Deformed never did any good 

 as a three-year-old after we got her, because all 

 our horses went amiss at Goodwood that year, 

 and she never got back to her form until the 

 following year, when she won several races. My 

 father sold her to go to Italy. She was brought 

 back to England, and bred a few that could race 



