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one in his time ; and once he went so far as to get 

 Beeswing's head for the Stockton Cup, and it was all 

 Cartwright could do to prevent him from getting 

 " bang up." Old Bob Johnson was never so astonished 

 in his life ; and, " in course," he had some reason 

 for them at Tupgill when they at last ventured to 

 mention it. 



John Osborne was known in connexion with many 

 other horses besides Ararat, but they were generally 

 rank bad ones. In later years he was quite as great a 

 pillar to the northern racing as " B. Green" had been 

 in his time ; and labourers in the fields used to say, 

 "Likely enough, some of Jolm Osborne s" if they saw 

 a long string journeying towards a northern town the 

 day before the races. About 1840-41, the same ex- 

 pression was used in a different sense ; and if a horse 

 was beat off below the distance, the betting-men had 

 that phrase almost stereotyped for reply, when any 

 Grand Stand neighbours asked them whose was the 

 unfortunate. 



With 1842 came a new order of things, and John 

 had the Marquis of Westminster's string Sleight-of- 

 Hand, Maria Day, Auckland, and a lot of others in 

 his keeping. Auckland by Touchstone was a colt 

 upon which the late Marquis was wondrously sweet, 

 and, from his foalhood, he set a monstrous figure on 

 him. He was reared at the Moor Park paddocks, and 

 was coming north in the early days of the London and 

 North-Western with a black filly, when an engine 

 burst, and nearly boiled the filly, and took some skin 

 off the colt. They were taken to the Eagle Inn at 

 Rugby, where the filly soon died, and the Marquis 

 went in for something like 3OOO/. compensation for the 

 two, and we believe he got it. Auckland was very 

 little the worse, and, as it proved, " The London and 

 North-Western Boiling Stakes" were the best he ever 

 won. The millionaire Marquis fondly hoped on for 

 the Derby ; but, although the illustrious patient did 



