354 ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



Ganton Handicap, and a Handicap Plate at Scarbro', 

 and the Roxburgh Handicap at Kelso. But her most 

 sensational performances were in 1886, when she 

 defeated the Malton horse, Selby, by a neck for the 

 Northumberland Plate, and effected a sensational coup 

 in the Cesarewitch. About this period Nightcap, Stole- 

 away, Boadicea, Chaucer, Stone Deaf, Dowry, Craig 

 Eoyston, Alb, Londonderry, Miss Toto, The Interloper, 

 Vellum, Warlaby (who turned out a speedy miler), and 

 Gloriation (who was a two-year-old in '86), were 

 winning races for the Ashgill stable. 



For the Northumberland Plate of '86, Nightcap, as 

 has been said, was preferred by William Osborne to 

 Stone Clink, but his judgment was at fault, and the 

 game daughter of Speculum gave Billy Platt his second 

 success in the race, his first being on Victor Emanuel, 

 who this year of '86 was sold by Lord Zetland and sent 

 from Aske to France. It was the dam of Victor 

 Emanuel that caused the death of Voltigeur. 



Our hero was still riding many winners midway 

 through the " eighties." At Gosforth Park June Meeting 

 of '85, on Mr. C. Perkins's Glyndon, he rode a dead 

 heat with Jim Snowden on Mr. T. Green's Bewdley. 

 In the decider the betting was 11 to 8 on Glyndon, who 

 was beaten a short head after a most desperate finish. 

 Singularly enough, but another race intervened that 

 afternoon, and Osborne rode a second dead heat on 

 Stone Clink against Mr. Bowes's Winkelman (Bruck- 

 shaw up), the latter being beaten in the decider by half 

 a length. This year, amongst many other successes, 

 Osborne rode Blue Grass to victory in, the Cumberland 

 Plate, the AshgiU-trained Londonderry, ridden by 

 Glover, having to put up with second place to the 



