290 ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



Dresden China, with 7 st. 3 Ibs. in the saddle, running 

 third. Immediately after the Great Yorkshire Handi- 

 cap success of Dresden China, she came into the hands of 

 Wm. I'Anson at Malton. She was repeatedly tried with 

 that arrant rogue, Adamite, owned by Mr. J. B. 

 Cookson. In the home trials on Langton Wolds, 

 Adamite could beat Dresden China a hundred yards at 

 the relative weights over the Cesarewitch distance; 

 hence Mr. Cookson's "gay deceiver" was made a 

 tremendous hot favourite for Chippendale's Cesarewitch, 

 with a most disappointing result. Harry Hall swore to 

 his dying day that if Dresden China, who was a magnifi- 

 cently built mare, had been kept at Spigot Lodge, she 

 would have been a moral certainty for Chippendale's 

 Cesarewitch. She would have got in with a stone less 

 but for the Great Yorkshire Handicap revelation. 

 Harry Hall was so exasperated at her being taken from 

 his hands that he openly exclaimed in the ring, " I'll let 

 the sun shine on her to-day," giving the jockey instruc- 

 tions to win as far as he could. These instructions were 

 fully carried out, for she came into the straight a 

 hundred yards in front of her field, and cantered past 

 the post a winner by almost a distance. " Old Harry " 

 kept Dresden China's affection for linseed jelly and salt 

 with her food a profound secret from William I'Anson 

 during the interval between the Great Yorkshire 

 Handicap and the Cesarewitch. The mare was a shy 

 feeder. The old fellow found out that with a supply of 

 jelly on one side of her head, and a piece of salt to lick 

 at the other, she would all the more readily clean out 

 her manger. 



Like the late Matthew Dawson, John Osborne 

 considers it almost indispensable for a trainer to 

 thoroughly understand a horse's character, disposition, 



