Mr. E. C. Clayton 



in whose hands she won the Grand National the following 

 year. 



One of his most noteworthy performances in the saddle 

 was that in the County Cup at Uxbridge, when, riding Diana, 

 he won on the post by a short head after a great race from the 

 distance ; whilst his riding of the shifty Podesta in a welter 

 plate at Cheltenham in 1871 was considered by all who saw it 

 a masterpiece of patience and fine handling, his mount trying 

 all he knew to cut it once or twice during the race. 



In 1867, Mr. Clayton bought Lozenge, whom he not only 

 trained at home for his engagement in the Cambridgeshire of 

 that year, until within a few days of the race, but actually rode 

 him in all his work himself, and well was he rewarded for his 

 pains, Lozenge winning the race after a dead heat (the only 

 one in its history) with Wolsey, belonging to Sir Joseph 

 Hawley. 



The latter at once suggested a division — a course which 

 probably would have been accepted in nine cases out of ten. 

 Mr. Clayton, however, though comparatively speaking a poor 

 man, and notwithstanding the fact that he stood to win ^10,000 

 by the result ; like the good sportsman he was, elected to run 

 off the dead heat, with the result that is now historical. 



One of the largest winners on the race was the late 

 Mr. Charles Head, who made his book for Lozenge. So 

 convinced was he, indeed, that the horse would win, that he 

 appeared in the ring on the day of the race with an enormous 

 lozenge, manufactured expressly for the occasion, stuck in his 

 hat, a " tip " that no doubt, coming from such a quarter, 

 inspired many a small punter. A well-known sporting writer 

 of the period alluded afterwards to the race in the following 

 terms : — 



" The excitement prior to the occasion of the dead heat 



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