THE TURF. 
jockeys that bear that name, and also of William, 
formerly a jockey who trained for his late majesty, and 
has a pension and part of the palace and stables at 
Newmarket as his reward. James trains for the Earl 
of Jersey, and is considered first-rate, and particularly 
so in his preparation for the Derby course. The 
cleverest of the jockeys is Harry, the one-eyed man, 
who lived with the late Earl Fitzwilliam, a very elegant 
horseman ; and our Caledonian friends will not forget 
his winning the King's Plate on Terror. He has now 
retired from the turf, and practises as a veterinary 
surgeon at Carlisle. George is likewise very good, 
as are Charles and Edward, young ones, not forgetting 
Frederick, little better than a child, but with the seat 
of an old man. When his late majesty saw his own 
horses mixed with Lord Jersey's at Ascot, and the 
answer to every question of "Who is that?" was 
"Edwards;" "Bless me," exclaimed the king, "what 
lots of jockeys that woman breeds !" It happens, 
however, that they are the produce of three different 
marriages ; so the glories come, as Garter would say, 
from the baron, not the femme. We are sorry to say 
Samuel Barnard has lost his eye-sight. He was a 
steady, good jockey, and rode for the Duke of Rutland, 
Lord Henry Fitzroy, and several of the best sportsmen 
on Newmarket heath. But we must not conclude 
without mentioning Old Forth, as he is called, who won 
the Derby in 1829, at the age of sixty, with a horse 
very little thought of before starting. He won a very 
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