THE TURF. 
to any one. He rode St. Giles, the winner of the 
Derby in 1832, for Mr. Ridsdale, and won the St. 
Leger for Mr. Watt once, on Memnon, and for Mr. 
Petre twice, viz., with the Colonel and Rowton. He 
also won the Derby on Mundig, 1835, for Mr. Bowes, 
with great odds against him; and the Oaks, 1836, on 
Cyprian, the joint property of himself and his brother. 
Very excellent prints of Rowton and Mundig and 
himself have been published by Ackerman, from a 
painting by Ferneley and Hancock. But such men as 
Scott, Chifney, Robinson, and Pavis generally appear 
to advantage ; they are in great request, and conse- 
quently are put on the best horses in the race, and have 
the best chance to distinguish themselves. William 
Scott is possessed of considerable property (part in right 
of his wife), and is brother to the well-known Yorkshire 
trainer of his name. 
Every trade, profession, or pursuit, opens, in its 
own peculiar circle of habits, a distinct subject of study ; 
and perhaps the existence of the Newmarket stable-boy, 
a thing on which the majority of our readers have 
never spent a thought, might, as painted by Holcroft, 
interest them more than the most accurate delineation 
of many higher modes and aspects of life. In that able 
writer's " Memoirs" the genuine and really valuable 
part of them all this is capitally described, from his 
first arrival at Newmarket to his final departure, at the 
age of sixteen ; from his fall off Mr. Woodcock's iron- 
grey filly, in his novitiate, to his being one of the best 
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