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comfortable independence, acquired by his 

 profession. What the Greeks said of 

 Fabricius might be said of him that it 

 would have been as difficult to have turned 

 the sun from its course, as to have turned 

 him from his duty; and, having said this, 

 we should like to say a little more of him. 

 He was the son of a saddler, at Newmarket, 

 no wonder he was so good on the saddle, 

 and commenced in the late Honourable 

 Richard Vernon's stables at a very early 

 age. He rode the winners of five Derby, 

 seven Oaks, and two St. Leger stakes, 

 besides, to use his own words, ' most of 'the 

 good things at Newmarket^ in his time ; but 

 it was in 1802 that he so greatly distinguished 

 himself at Epsom, by taking long odds that 

 he won both Derby and Oaks, on what were 

 considered very unlikely horses to win either. 

 His Derby horse was the Duke of Grafton's 

 Tyrant, with seven to one against him, beat- 

 ing Mr. Wilson's Young Eclipse, considered 

 the best horse of his year. Young Eclipse 

 made the play, and was opposed by Sir 

 Charles Bunbury's Orlando, who contested 

 every inch of ground with him for the first 

 mile. From Buckle's fine judgment of pace, 



