58 ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



" I don't know. They used to come out again 

 the next day and run all the better for it. 

 That same horse Brandy Face I was speaking 

 about, he ran in each of the four heats for the 

 Queen's Plate at Carlisle, and was beaten a head 

 in the last. He came out next week at Lancaster 

 and appeared none the w r orse for it. In the race 

 for the final there were only two heads in it- 

 Quadruple first, Brandy Face second, and Sylvan 

 third. 



"In '49 and '50, Ada Mary, Gladiole (a 

 useful two-year-old by Gladiator), and Maid of 

 Masham won several races for my father. Maid 

 of Masham was trained by Thomas Dawson up 

 to '49, and she came to my father in '50, when 

 she was a five-year-old. In that year she won 

 a number of Queen's Plates and the Nottingham 

 Handicap as well. About this period Acyran- 

 thus appeared on the scene, winning at Thirsk, 

 Newton, and several other places ; and the Black 

 Doctor also about this time did us good service. 

 He was bred by my father, his sire being The 

 Doctor, and his dam Betsy Bird. One of his 

 best performances was winning the Eglinton 

 Stakes at Doncaster, beating Bee Hunter, second, 

 with the great Beverley mare, Nancy, third. 

 That was the first year of the Eglinton Stakes, 

 Lord Eglinton adding 200 to the race. After 

 that Black Doctor won several races for us, and 

 my father sold him to Mr. Saxon, for whom he 

 ran second to Nancy the following year for the 

 Chester Cup ; second in the Dee Cup ; unplaced 

 in the Derby, and second in the Manchester Cup. 

 Edwin Parr, the trainer of Lord Clifden, had 

 him as a three-year-old. I rode Pity the Blind 



