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one that fell. I could have escaped I saw it 

 coming by setting my horse a-going, but 

 Weever's horse was in front. I didn't set my 

 horse going, because I would have run into his 

 heels. In getting up something struck into me : 

 I was kicked on the back and had three ribs- 

 broken. It was three weeks before I was moved 

 from Liverpool, and it was twelve days before 

 they got the bleeding stopped, as the lungs were 

 lacerated. It was not until the 12th August 

 that I got out again. I rode at Doncaster in 

 September. I rode Bosphorus in the St. Leger. 

 That was my first mount after the accident, 

 though before that I had been riding a bit at 

 home." 



Reappearing, after his long illness arising from the 

 shaking he got in the Durham accident in the spring- 

 of 1886, Mr. Vyner's Gloriation credited Osborne with 

 another win in the John o' Gaunt Plate at Manchester, 

 the colt thus early indicating that excellence whick was 

 climaxed when he captured the Cambridgeshire in '87, 

 carrying 7 st. 6 Ib. and beating a field of nineteen others. 

 Thus the stable, within a period of some twelve months, 

 had won a Northumberland Plate, a Cesarewitch, and 

 a Cambridgeshire, apart from many other races which 

 it would be wearisome to dwell upon. 



Stone Clink's Cesarewitch proved that an immense 

 amount of money could still be won on the great back- 

 end handicap. The mare was well backed by the 

 Northerners, yet her owner a short time before the race 

 accepted 5000 to 100 on one hand. That that wager 

 could have been obtained several times over there was 

 no question. An astute commissioner that morning 

 could have backed her to win 25,000 or 30,000 



