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as a veterinary surgeon at Carlisle. George 

 is likewise very good, as are Charles and 

 Edward, young ones, not forgetting Frederick, 

 little better than a child, but with the seat 

 of an old man. When his late majesty saw 

 his own horses mixed with Lord Jersey's at 

 Ascot, and the answer to every question of 

 'Who is that?' was 'Edwards'; 'Bless 

 me,' exclaimed the king, 'what lots of 

 jockeys that woman breeds!' It happens, 

 however, that they are the produce of three 

 different marriages ; so the glories come, 

 as Garter would say, from the baron^ not 

 the femme. We are sorry to say Samuel 

 Barnard has lost his eyesight. He was a 

 steady, good jockey, and rode for the Duke 

 of Rutland, Lord Henry Fitzroy, and several 

 of the best sportsmen on Newmarket 

 heath. But we must not conclude without 

 mentioning Old Forth, as he is called, who 

 won the Derby in 1829, at the age of sixty, 

 with a horse very little thought of before 

 starting. He won a very large sum of money 

 on the event, and has now a string of horses 

 in training; and rode a capital race at 

 Stockbridge in the present year. 



It is said of the Yorkshire jockeys, that 



