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hunter" The second Earl of Durham and "Old John"- 

 A learned student of blood Beginning of the Lambton 

 stud A bunch of celebrities The Wizard and Warlock 

 Stark's great struggle with The Wizard The Prussians 

 get the Wizard Mr. Lambton's school "Old John," the 

 Duke of Leeds, and Lord Chesterfield, " the magnificent "- 

 Octavian, Priam, and Zinganee at Bretby The Chifneys 

 and " The Escape " affair The Chifney rush Zinganee 

 and the Chifneys Priam and the Chifneys Priam's Derby 

 After Priam's Derby ; decline of the Chifneys' star 

 "Old John" quits Bretby; birth of "Our Johnnie" 

 Ashgill tenanted by "Old John" in '37 His first three 

 racers Wrestler, Orcus, and Miss Bowe The latter 

 bought by Lord Stanley for 400 guineas. John Fobert and 

 Sir James Boswell Fobert and Murphy's rivalry General 

 Chasse and Touchstone The brothers Dawson at Brecon- 

 gill Its rich turf history Mat Dawson's first visit to 

 Middleham The Dawsons in a rich winning vein Some 

 of their aristocratic patrons and the clinkers they trained 

 Lord Glasgow at Middleham Career of the Dawsons at 

 Middleham " Cocky little Mat's" first Derby nag Tom 

 Dawson's first horse His stud grows Lord Glasgow and 

 his private trainers The "classics" come to Middleham 

 and the Dawsons Touchstone better than The Flying 

 Dutchman or West Australian Ashgill in '41 The Duke of 

 Westminster a patron Prices of racers seventy years ago, - 20 



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In the " forties " Increase of the Ashgill haras "Johnnie's" first 

 mount in '46 a failure Miss Castling breaks down An 

 industrious family Mrs. Osborne and her broom " Young 

 Johnnie " begins to work Purchase of Annette with Agnes 

 by Clarion Her trial with Cranbrook " Old John " fancies 

 her Produce of Agnes Some account of her descendants 

 Polly Agnes's produce Lily Agnes, Ormonde, and Orme 

 "Lily's" retirement to Eaton and death in '99 "Mr. John's" 

 recital of the " Agnes " family " Lily's " performances 

 Alice Hawthorn and her exploits Death of Touchstone, the 

 " King of the Turf " " Alice " one of the greatest mares 



