ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



in his wake. At Newcastle he gave Osborne two 

 successful rides in the Stephenson Biennial and the 

 North Derby, Lily Agnes making her first appear- 

 ance at this meeting with John on her back, and 

 winning by six lengths, " Lily " thus at the very outset 

 foreshadowing a brilliant career as a racer, apart from 

 her renown as the dam of Ormonde when her racing: 



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days were ended. 



Thorn beat Uhlan by half a length for the York 

 Cup, upsetting the odds of 100 to 30 laid on him; 

 won the Eglinton Stakes at Doncaster, where he 

 also finished third to Uhlan and Lilian, in Busby's 

 hands, for the Doncaster Cup. His attempt in 

 the Cambridgeshire won by Montargis was a failure 

 under the weight, and with an eight-lengths defeat 

 from Flageolet, he went into winter quarters. His 

 four-year-old career was not so conspicuous, the French 

 horse Boulet, by Monarque, beating him a head at 

 24 Ibs. for the year between them. Lowlander was 

 his conqueror at Ascot, this fixture being memorable 

 for its great race for the Gold Cup, in which that 

 great horse Boiard delighted the Frenchmen by 

 defeating such equine constellations as Flageolet and 

 Doncaster, who, three parts of a length away, dead- 

 heated for second place, with Gang Forward, Marie 

 Stuart, and Kaiser behind them truly a race worthy 

 of the gods! But the Frenchman's wings were clipped 

 the following day in the Alexandra Plate, when King 

 Lud gave him 1 Ib. and a neck beating in an equally 

 memorable race over three miles', the Frenchman 

 splitting Lord Zetland's grand stayer and Flageolet. 

 The very following race, Thorn, ridden by Chaloner, 

 was easily beaten by Lowlander for the Ascot Plate. 

 At Doncaster he won the Cleveland Handicap, steered 



