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though he was fifteen years older, he could ride fur- 

 ther and longer" ; and was very nearly challenged to 

 the proof. "To ride for twenty-five days, or till 

 either of them dropped/' were the terms which the 

 public proposed for the match. Buckle's great forte 

 was to wait and then set-to on an idle horse ; and he 

 seemed to finish, to the very last, quite as strong over 

 the Beacon Course as the T.M.M. One of the most 

 dashing mile races he ever rode was on Orlando 

 against Dennis Fitzpatrick on Gaoler. Each jockey 

 did his utmost to " get a pull/' but was jealously de- 

 termined not to let his opponent get one, and the 

 consequence was, that the race was run from end to 

 end, and Gaoler just stayed the longest. He de- 

 lighted in a little gammon, and even if he had 

 been slipped at the post, as he was on Mortimer, 

 nothing could induce him to hurry; hut/ as then, he 

 crept up the sixty yards inch by inch, and just 

 caught Slim in the last two strides. . It was this 

 peculiar game of patience which made the North- 

 ern jockeys of that day such especial admirers of him 

 and Robinson ; and it may be safely said of these 

 two and Chifney (whom they never loved after his 

 dashing debut at York in 1805), that when they had 

 once won their race, they never gave it away again, 

 as second-raters are apt to do. There was no jealousy 

 whatever between the three, except during the race 

 itself; and, in fact, Sam very often begged them as a 

 favour to take some of his best mounts off his hands. 

 For some time after Robinson first came out, Sam 

 only thought him a moderate rider ; but at the close 

 of a Newmarket Meeting, as he rode home from the 

 Heath with his brother, he broke out suddenly, after 

 a long thoughtful pause, with " By-the-by, Will, have 

 you observed Robinson this week ? " " Yes indeed I 

 have" was Will's answer, whose eye never failed to 

 catch in an instant anything brilliant, or the reverse, 

 about man or horse. "Well!" was the low re- 



