TRAINERS AND JOCKEYS. 37 



But we have wandered away from the jockeys. Will 

 Arnull was only a year senior to Sam Chifney, but 

 he died nearly ninteen years before him. Lord G. 

 H. Cavendish and Lord Exeter were his principal 

 masters; the "narrow blue stripes" of the latter 

 having been confided to his keeping when his Lord- 

 ship and Robinson differed about a match between 

 Kecruit and Goshawk. He was a good jockey, but 

 not quite first-class; and shortly before he retired 

 and became trainer to Lord Lichfield, he had grown 

 rather idle in the sweaters. His luck at Epsom com- 

 menced when he was nineteen; and he won two 

 more Derbies, the last of which was in 1814 on Blu- 

 cher. When the real Field Marshal, who had won 

 as much renown with the dice in St. Jameses-street 

 as he had done in the preceding year at the baths of 

 Pyrmont, visited Newmarket that summer, after his 

 Cambridge fete, Will had the honour of mounting 

 this son of Waxy in his presence and of showing his 

 namesake, in a strong canter over the D. M., "how 

 fields were won " in the preceding May. He was a 

 merry little fellow, up to all kinds of queer games ; 

 and many were the tricks of which he was both the 

 soul and the butt. This made him a little sus- 

 picious, and he never forgot how the " Black Dwarf 

 of Newmarket" was sent him, quite drunk, in a wine- 

 hamper, and roused the whole house with his midnight 

 yells from the cellar. Once, too, when Mr. Gully's 

 colt " Hokee Pokee" walked into Newmarket, he de- 

 manded the name from the lad, and then went off to 

 Sam Day in no very good temper, to tell him that 

 the stable-lad had been poking his impudence at him ; 

 and Sam could scarcely persuade him that he had 

 been told the right name. 



Without any disrespect to the memories of Thomas 

 Goodisson and Will Arnull, whose selection from the 

 mass of Northern and Southern jockeys to ride Filho 

 da Puta and Sir Joshua in their great 1816 match 



