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to 'part,' especially under the peculiar evils of this 

 case. After the race, Wood, who rode King Milan, 

 remarked that Gloriation would have won in a canter 

 had he not been interfered with. Turfites are well aware 

 what a close student of weights Mr. Vyner is, and 

 wondered how he could have allowed such a mistake 

 to happen. He treated the matter philosophically, but 

 backers of Gloriation had some reason to grumble at 

 their luck. It was learnt afterwards that Mr. Vyner 

 had trusted Gloriation's weight to John Osborne 

 himself, who, in his calculations, had overlooked 

 Gloriation's Derby win ; hence the error. 



" In a very close race at this same meeting, 

 ' Master John ' made some amends for his mistake by 

 winning the Wilton Plate, over five furlongs, with 

 Fallow Chat by Hagioscope, out of Stone Chat, then 

 a two-year-old. Mr. Vyner's filly had odds of 6 to 4 

 laid on her, and coming with one of his tremendous 

 rushes when his case looked hopeless from inside the 

 distance, John readily scored on the filly, whose victory 

 speedily compensated Mr. Vyner for the unfortunate 

 Gloriation business. As showing how luck runs, in the 

 very next race that same afternoon, Weldon won the 

 Sands Hill Handicap on Sir Triamond for Mr. Vyner." 



