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is not there. He is in his grave ; but he has left 
behind him not merely an example for all young jockeys 
to follow, but proof that honesty is the best policy ; for 
he died in the esteem of all the racing world, and in 
the possession of a 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 iiis 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, beating 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, he 
was convinced they must both stop ; so, following, and 
watching them with Tyrant, he came up and won, to 
the surprise of all who saw him, with one of the worst 
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