40 ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



a two-year-old, winning the Seaton Delaval at 

 Newcastle, a race at York, and another at Kelso 

 in the autumn. As a three-year-old she won 

 her first race at Croxton Park; was beaten at 

 York Spring and at Chester in a badly run race<, 

 after w r hich she carried 6 stone 10 Ibs. home for 

 the Northumberland Plate, following that up 

 by winning the same season the York Cup, the 

 Doncaster Cup, and then Peut-etre beat her in 

 the Queen's Plate at Manchester. As a four- 

 year-old she ran a dead heat for the Queen's 

 Plate with the French horse, Figaro II., 

 and won the decider by a head; also won 

 the Ebor Handicap that season. She won 

 the Queen's Plate at Shrewsbury, beating, 

 amongst others, Princess Louise Victoria. 

 In her five - year - old career she won a 

 Queen's Plate at Chester. That season she 

 was trained again for the Northumberland 

 Plate by my brother William, who had her under 

 his eyes all along ; but three days before she had 

 to run for that event, Mr. Snarry took her away 

 from Ashgill and placed her under the charge 

 of Charles Lund. An opinion got abroad that 

 the late Mr. Harry Bragg had laid against her. 

 After winning her race at Chester, Lily Agnes 

 was intended for the stud and to be put to 

 Lecturer. Then the weights came out for the 

 Northumberland Plate, and she was put into 

 training again; in fact, she was never really 

 taken out of training. She did not run very well 

 in the Northumberland Plate. It would be as 

 a six-year-old that she went to the stud, Mr. 

 Snarry breeding several times from her; then 



