AND TIMES OF JOHN OSBORNE 229 



CHAPTER XIV 



" Eheu ! fugaces, Postume, Postume 

 Labuntur aiini." 



Now appeared on the scene at Ashgill two animals, 

 in Lily Agnes and Apology, destined to immortalise 

 themselves not only on the Turf as high-class racers, 

 but as matrons throwing the grandest of stock. Lily 

 Agnes arrived in her new Yorskhire home in the 

 autumn of 71 as a yearling. She was put through her 

 facings as a two-year-old just before the Newcastle 

 Summer Meeting, the tale tellers being Organist and 

 Euphrosyne, who had been the trying tackle of Thorn 

 and Grand Flaneur the year before. Lily Agnes beat 

 Organist a head, with Euphrosyne a length away, the 

 last-named being a four-year-old at the time. 

 John loquitur 



" That trial opened our eyes you can well 

 imagine, although we expected they could go 

 a bit before we tried them. On her first appear- 

 ance at Newcastle soon afterwards, Lily Agnes 

 won the Tyro Stakes by six lengths. After we 

 got round the old Morpeth Turn on the Town 

 Moor she appeared dead beat; I gave her a 

 smack with the whip, and she at once ran 

 ^ through her horses like a flash. Organist won 



