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and temperament. Kindness, good treatment, and 

 watchfulness of their whims will cure and improve 

 where brutality and punishment will only add to their 

 evils. As the Dresden China story illustrates, horses, 

 like human beings, have their likes and dislikes. 

 Archer never liked Muley Edris, and the horse reci- 

 procated the dislike by nearly worrying the great 

 jockey's arm off, the poor brute probably never for- 

 getting the punishment which "The Demon" could 

 administer so terribly, and often enough, perhaps, 

 unjustly. 



Returning to Osborne's subsequent riding of 

 Chippendale, let it be stated that he steered him to 

 victory in the Great Metropolitan of 1880 as a four-year- 

 old, with 8 st. in the saddle, afterwards winning on 

 him the Ascot Gold Cup, though the mighty Isonomy 

 lowered his colours later on over the Royal Heath. 

 Dresden China, with Jim Snowden up, beat Chippen- 

 dale in the Goodwood Cup, Osborne's mount being a 

 3 to 1 favourite. " Johnnie " could never understand 

 this failure of his favourite, and confesses that " Chip " 

 must have been "a bit off that day." A failure in 

 Robert the Devil's Cesarewitch preceded Chippendale's 

 and Osborne's runaway victory in the Jockey Club Cup. 

 His five-year season, which embraced four essays, was 

 unmarked by success. His racing career ended as a 

 six-year-old, Tristan beating him in the Ascot Gold 

 Vase ; and he succumbed to Corrie Roy and Hagioscope 

 in subsequent events. But the grand climax came when 

 "Johnnie" was associated with his triumph in the 

 Jockey Club Cup at Newmarket, in which he came out 

 as a thoroughly game, good horse over the severe course 

 of 2 miles 2 furlongs 28 yards. Chippendale, carrying 

 9 st. 12 Ibs., won by a head, with City Arab, three years, 



