86 ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



Augury was very smart, and he had a great idea 

 she would beat Mr. I'Anson's crack filly. Blink 

 Bonny had beaten her at Beverley ; but that was 

 excused on the ground of her not being ready. 

 The orders were given to me to jump off and 

 come through, the going being very heavy. 

 Robert I'Anson, who was on Blink Bonny, and 

 myself lay together, and we came along a 

 * cracker,' I can teU you. I beat Blink Bonny, 

 but Joe Kendal on Lady Hawthorn beat us 

 both. That tremendous finish was in the 

 ' Convivial ' at York. Augury was brought out 

 on the following day, and she won the Eglinton 

 Stakes and the ' Biennial.' She ran again the 

 succeeding day in the Gimcrack Stakes against 

 Blink Bonny, but she couldn't raise a gallop, for 

 it was the fourth time she had run in the three 

 days. Augury never did much good afterwards, 

 and she died as a four-year-old. Her best per- 

 formance after her two-year-old career was 

 running second to Adamas for the Liverpool St. 

 Leger. She was a winner twice or thrice in the 

 autumn of her four-year-old career. She was by 

 Birdcatcher out of Nickname by Ishmael, and 

 own sister to Augur, one of Lord Zetland's which 

 won him the Champagne Stake at Doncaster. 



"Lady Tatton, by Sir Tatton Sykes out of 

 Fair Rosamond by Inheritor, was the property 

 of my father. She ran three seasons, first winning 

 the Nursery at Newmarket in '54. The next 

 season she won the Palatine Stakes at Chester, 

 and ran third in the Dee Stakes. We took her 

 to Epsom for the Oaks, but on arriving there she 

 went amiss and did not run. She afterwards got 



