A MUCH-TRAVELLED HORSE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 978, 3 December 1908, Page 6

A MUCH-TRAVELLED HORSE.

It is not often that a racehorse encounters so many changes of fortune as did Yorkshire Grey, winner of the Summer Handicap at Newmarket in 1858, says an exchange. As a three year old he was a great favourite for the Chester Cup, but cut up so badly in that race that his owner, Mr. J. Osborne, disgusted with his performance, sold him to go abroad. On the Continent he was first heard of in Italy, where Count Tevis, an American holding a commission in the British Army, came across him, and purchased him for £7OO. Under his ownership Yorkshire Grey competed, with more or less success, in France, Belgium, Germany, and Italy, and was afterwards used, sometimes as a charger and sometimes as a hack, in the Crimea, actually taking part in the celebrated charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. He was subsequently sent to America, and thence returned to his native England, where he was again put into training under the charge of R. Boyce, of Newmarket, and actually won two out of his first three engagements.