^^^ ashgill; or, the life 



Muscatel and Merry Duchess. In the Manchester 

 Cup he was the successful "coachman" of Black 

 Doctor in '62, and on Cathedral seven years later. For 

 the Ascot Stakes of '62 he steered Rapparee to the 

 winning post, and followed that up with Teviotdale for 

 his old patron Sir Robert Jardine in '81. Two Ebor 

 Handicaps fell to him— on Vedette in '58, and Victor 

 Emanuel in '82. 



Knavesmire has seen some of his best per- 

 formances, and his name is aUied to a goodly array of 

 Great Yorkshire Handicap and Park Hill Stakes 

 winners, apart from a host of minor handicaps. 

 Camballo won him his first and only Champagne Stakes 

 at Doncaster. Pretender and Apology are his two St. 

 Leger successes ; and Sir R. Bulkeley's Macaroni colt, 

 Surinam, carried him to victory after a dead heat and 

 the subsequent walk over in the Middle Park Plate 

 of '72. He was twice second on Chippendale for the 

 Cesarewitch, being beaten by the great American colt 

 Foxhall the first time, and by that grand mare Corrie 

 Roy the second. He won the Liverpool Cup on Bon- 

 Mot as far back as '49. 



His name, i' faith, has been heralded on almost every 

 racecourse in the United Kingdom. Truly "Honest 

 John" has had an unexampled career for its length, 

 and, considering the condition and cares attending it, 

 its success. He never came in the category of fashion- 

 able jockeys; probably — ^most probably — he was too 

 honest to attain that questionable distinction as the 

 world goes on the Turf even in these closing months 

 of the nineteenth century. He had no entourage, no 

 alliances, no questionable partnerships, no hangers-on, 

 no great plungers or gamblers associated with him. 

 He pursued, untainted, his own straight path of honesty 



