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into second place, Peppermint also doing the stable a 

 turn and adding to John's fame by winning the Londes- 

 borough Plate, with Hesperian, Craig Royston, and 

 Novice scoring for him at Doncaster Spring, while 

 Chiselhurst, a two-year-old of high class, owned by 

 Mr. Charles Perkins, appropriated the valuable Whit- 

 suntide Plate at Manchester, with John as his coachman. 

 The first race meeting at Gosforth Park, whither 

 Newcastle races had been transferred from the old 

 Town Moor, sacred to the memory of many a great 

 horse since the days of X Y Z, Bee's-wing, Lanercost, 

 and Alice Hawthorn, was celebrated in the last week 

 of June, 1882. There was a great gathering of the 

 Northerners in the paradise of racing, and great was 

 the rejoicing when the five-year-old Victor Emanuel, 

 owned by Mr. Harry Bragg, and still trained by John 

 Osborne, carried off the Northumberland Plate under 

 an 8 st. burden, with his stable companion Novice 

 running second to him. Further exploits this season 

 gained by the Ashgill team jointly with John Osborne 

 lay to the credit of . Peppermint at Stockton and 

 Carlisle, and Mr. William Osborne's M'Mahon at 

 Pontefract, while Craig Royston, Robertson, Sophist, 

 and others won several minor events. At Liverpool, 

 in the St. George's Stakes, John won an exciting race 

 on Hesperian, beating Archer on King Archebong in 

 a tremendous finish by a head. Another desperate race 

 of his this year was on Mr. R. Jardine's Reveller in the 

 Goodwood Stakes, who ran Fortissimo to a head. It 

 was also a great source of gratification to John when 

 Peppermint, in the Great Northern Leger at Stockton, 

 carried him home a victor from the Heath House can- 

 didate Zeus, as Camballo, the sire of Peppermint, had 

 been under him in the Two Thousand he won five years 

 previously. 



