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back old John Osborne against a good many of the 

 present "young uns." 



To bear out what I have said, only two years ago 

 I myself started him in three races at Carlisle on a 

 very hot day in forty minutes, and he rode one 

 winner and two dead-heats. This takes a bit of 

 reckoning up, and also beating. I will explain 

 how it was done. ' Lodore ' and ' Dissenter ' ran a 

 dead-heat on the last day for the last race but one, 

 and everyone was anxious to catch the train ; so we 

 got permission from the stewards to run the deciding 

 heat directly after the last race, and as there was 

 only thirty minutes between the last two, the decider 

 came off ten minutes afterwards, with the same 

 result. These were the only two horses I said I 

 would ever undertake to handicap, as I never saw two 

 so close together. Chandley made the running the 

 first time, and I thought he had just got up, and 

 Johnnie made the running the last time, and I 

 thought Chandley had got up ; but of course the 

 judge in the box is the only man who can tell on 

 such occasions, especially when horses are running 

 a bit wide. I think this version quite sufficient to 

 prove my argument that my old friend John was 

 anything but worn out, as many people tried to 

 make out, and he proved it afterwards by riding 



