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success, as Bonnie Harden had proved her superior in 

 the home rehearsal to which Wm. I'Anson subjected 

 the pair before leaving Malton. Chippendale, in the 

 Ascot Gold Cup, with John in the saddle, struck his 

 flag to the mighty Isonomy undoubtedly one of the 

 great horses of the century, if not the greatest. 

 Captain Machell's Warrior gave him a winning mount 

 in the Wokingham Stakes, and Jessie Agnes's runaway 

 victory in the Triennial at Ascot led the brothers to 

 believe that they had a nailer in her, an opinion she 

 did not fulfil. Another Ashgill inmate highly thought 

 of this season was Mr. Harry Bragg's Victor Emanuel, 

 and Lartington in the same ownership did useful 

 service. Victor Emanuel, then a three-year-old, was 

 made a great favourite for the Northumberland Plate. 

 It was unjustly said that Mr. Clare Vyner, with 

 Mycenae, was running in the same boat with Mr. Bragg. 

 Victor Emanuel became a greater favourite as the 

 day approached for the decision of the " Pitmen's 

 Derby/ 5 and the son of Albert Victor stripped with 

 the full confidence of William and John Osborne in him. 

 But he failed in the test for a three-year-old to cover 

 the severe two miles on the old Newcastle Town Moor, 

 and Mycenae, with Harry Morgan in the saddle, won 

 by a head from the French horse Inval, who was con- 

 ceding him 7 Ibs., with Victor Emanuel carrying 

 5 st. 12 Ibs., third, a length away from the Frenchman. 

 The American horse Parole, who looked all over a 

 winner, at once gave way at the distance, showing that 

 he did not possess the stamina with which the Americans 

 had credited him. 



The Osbornes' team at the Newcastle Meeting this 

 year, '80, embraced Lartington, Ability, Banbury Bun, 



