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from Mr. Lowe, who got into trouble with Sir John 

 Astley at Manchester, made one of the best bargains 

 of his life. Mr. Lowe sold the horse under the 

 impression that he would not be reinstated on the Turf. 

 Barcaldine, who inherited the stout blood of Melbourne, 

 Stockwell, and Birdcatcher, was one of the grandest 

 types of the weight- carrier that eyes ever beheld. 

 Tristan, then in his prime, never stood half a chance 

 with Barcaldine in the Orange Cup at Ascot; and 

 with other great and unchallenged records to his name, 

 needless to say that the 40,000 Northumbrians who 

 witnessed, in Gosforth Park enclosure, his magnificent 

 performance in the " Plate " cheered as lustily as did 

 their forebears when the game little Underhand, who 

 started six times for the race, winning it thrice, and 

 when Caller Ou, a dual winner, and then only beaten 

 a neck in her third attempt, were the idols of the 

 " cannie folk " of the North country. If not a very 

 profitable season this of '83 to John and his horses, it 

 was a paying one, and he wound up at Doncaster by 

 riding Chiselhurst second to the roaring Ossian in the 

 St. Leger. 



Of dead heats that he had ridden, John mentioned, 

 in one of our interviews, an instance which took place 

 on Knavesmire. It was in a match between Mr. 

 Vyner's Frega and Jim Snowden, who rode a chestnut 

 belonging to Lord Durham. Snowden made the running 

 until inside the distance, where John closed up and 

 made a dead heat of it. The affair being a match, the 

 decider was not run off. 



" I rode two dead heats in one year on Mr. 

 H. F. Beaumont's Golden Pledge at Richmond, 

 the first being with one of Lord Zetland's; I 

 can't remember his name, but I know he was a 



