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We propose in the next few pages briefly to analyse the 

 performances in the pigskin of some of the greatest orna- 

 ments of the British Turf from the commencement of this 

 century to the present hour. Among the dead, there will pass 

 under our review such masters of the art of race-riding as 

 Francis Buckle, Samuel Chifney the younger, James Robinson, 

 Harry Edwards, J. B, Day, William Scott, Tommy Lye, Job 

 Marson, Sam Rogers, Elnathan Flatman, Francis Butler, 

 Alfred Day, ' Tiny ' Wells, Thomas French, Thomas Aldcroft, 

 George Fordham, James Snowden, and Fred Archer ; while 

 among the living, Henry Custance, John Osborne, Fred Webb, 

 Thomas Cannon, and Charles Wood will naturally claim 

 notice in these pages. The hst both of dead and living 

 jockeys deserving of mention might, perhaps, be still furthei 

 extended, but we doubt whether we have omitted from it a 

 single name borne by a professional horseman of the very 

 highest rank. Thus from the dead we have excluded Sim 

 Templeman, Charles Marlow, Sam Darling, Arthur Pavis, 

 Patrick Conolly, and James Grimshaw, as belonging to those 

 who, in French parlance, ' brillent au second rang ; ' while 

 among the hving there will doubtless be two or three whom 

 their admirers would wish to add to our category. We have, 

 however, set ourselves a task which will more than exhaust the 

 patience of our readers and the space at our command. 

 Every variety of riding and of character demands investigation 

 and analysis at the hands of those who undertake, howevei 

 perfunctorily, to glance at the careers of the twenty-three 

 jockeys named above. Among the dead we have included but 

 one — Tommy Lye — whose performance in the saddle was not 

 of the highest class, and him we select more ' to point a moral ' 

 than to ' adorn a tale.' 



'We may venture to aver' (exclaimed 'The Druid,' in 

 his ' Post and Paddock ' ) ' that a more brilliant quartet of 

 horsemen than Buckle, Chifney, Robinson, and Harry Edwards 

 never issued side by side from the Ditch stables.' Mr. John 

 Gully, who was as intimately acquainted with the dessous des 



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