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maintains that there was not much fluke about the race, 

 and that on that particular day The Miner was a great 

 horse. 



Trent's defeat of Apology, which the writer saw, was 

 also very inexplicable, but it is quite certain that Tom 

 Cannon rode a brilliant race on Mr. Marshall's horse, and 

 without doubt the Danebury jockey was a great exponent 

 of the riding art in these long races when the fields were 

 small. It was in such cases that his knowledge of pace 

 served him so well, and fourteen years later he did another 

 very fine performance in this same Great Yorkshire Stakes. 

 This was when, on the Duke of Westminster's Ossory, he 

 beat Caerlaverock and Arrandale. Caerlaverock had walked 

 over for the Ebor St. Leger on the previous day, and had 

 won twice at Redcar a fortnight before. Ossory had been 

 unplaced for the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, after running 

 second to his stable companion, Orbit, in the worst field 

 that ever went to the post for the Eclipse Stakes. Between 

 Caerlaverock and the Kingsclere colt the betting was very 

 close, and whether Ossory had developed roaring pro- 

 clivities or was a non-stayer is of no consequence. It 

 was, nevertheless, plain enough that a strong race would 

 not suit him, because as soon as the flag fell Cannon 

 jumped off in front, and then slowed down without losing his 

 place. He waited in front, spurting away for a few strides 

 if either of the others came near him, and then easing off 

 again. The result was that for a mile or more they only 

 cantered, and Ossory being the speediest, won easily. A 

 few weeks later, in a strong -run race at Newmarket, 

 Caerlaverock easily reversed the form. 



The Gimcrack Stakes was founded in honour of Gim- 

 crack, a grey horse, by Cripple, out of a mare by Grisewood's 

 Partner, who was foaled in 1760, and who won an extra- 

 ordinary number of races. He was a veritable turf pony, 

 little over fourteen hands high, and that he must have been 

 an object of worship amongst horse-loving Yorkshiremen is 

 proved by the fact that his name was chosen as a title for the 

 most important two-year-old stake of the York meetings. 

 Gimcrack was one of the sort we want now on the turf, 



