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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 determined 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 delighted 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 ; but, 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 

 Northern 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-bye, 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 rejoinder, "kfi 

 taken to riding like the very devil" Will did not fail to 

 report to Robinson what Sam had been saying of him, 

 and he at once confessed that he was quite right, and 



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