AND TIMES OF JOHN OSBORNE 



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successful, as Sortie, Emily, and Lady Augusta were 

 but indifferent substitutes for the foals of Miss Bowe. 



The sum of 94,003 was won for Lord Derby by 

 the following horses fifty-four in number. The total 

 number of horses he had in training from first to last 

 was 243: 



94,003 



Also in this year of '69, John Stephenson, a Turf 

 " leviathan " of the day, committed suicide shortly 

 after Pretender had won the Derby. Among the many 

 extraordinary " characters " the Turf has produced, 

 Stephenson had no parallel. " Jock o' Oran " had been 

 the " Emperor of the Ring " before retiring in affluence 

 at Fairfield. Stephenson, however, became the greatest 

 Roman of them all great only in the magnitude of his 

 laving and backing transactions. Dr. Short-house, in an 



