THE TURF. 
eye to the state of the legs and feet, when asked to ride 
a horse he did not know. His jockeying Green Mantle, 
however, for Lord Exeter, in the Second October 
Meeting, 1828, and winning with her, after the tricks 
she played with him before starting, shewed that even 
then his courage was unshaken. But it is not only in 
public, but in private life, that Buckle stood well. He 
was a kind father and husband, and a good master; 
and his acts of charity were conspicuous for a person 
in his situation of life, who might be said to have gotten 
all he possessed, first by the sweat of his brow, and 
then at the risk of his life. In a short biographical 
sketch of him, his little peculiarities are noticed in 
rather an amusing style. " He was," says his bio- 
grapher*, "a great patron of the sock and buskin, and 
often bespoke plays for the night in country towns. 
He was a master of hounds, a breeder of greyhounds, 
fighting-cocks, and bull-dogs (proh pudor /), and always 
celebrated for his hacks. In the language of the stud- 
book, his first wife had no produce, but out of the second 
he had several children. We may suppose he chose her 
as he would a race-horse, for she was not only very 
handsome, but very good." He left three sons, who 
are comfortably and respectably settled in life one 
a solicitor, one a druggist, and the other a brewer. 
" Young Buckle " is his nephew, and considered a fair 
* Nimrod. . Vide "Old Sorting Magazine," vol. xiv., No. 81, June, 
1824 ; also, " New Sporting Magazine," vol. iii., No. 13, May, 1832. 
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