THE TURF. 
been in his service twenty-eight years. They amounted 
to twenty-five times in nineteen months. 
After the father of the turf, we believe Mr. Batson 
is about the oldest of the Jockey Club. Although he 
was placed third with Hogarth, Middleton's year, and 
ran third for the Oaks, he never carried the Epsom 
honours until 1834 with Plenipotentiary. Mr. Rush 
also is an old jockey, and a very good supporter of the 
turf, running his horses more for amusement than profit. 
He also breeds, but his stock does not shine at New- 
market, where he is generally satisfied with a good 
third. It is said he breeds from worn-out mares. In 
the provincials, however, he is rather more fortunate ; 
and it is something to say he was James Robinson's first 
master, and John Robinson trains for him. Mr. Biggs 
is another old member of the Jockey Club, but, like Mr. 
Batson, is more formidable in the provincials, where he 
has been a great winner, and hard to beat. Some years 
since, at Stockbridge, his horse Camerton was the 
winner of a memorable race. Three others started, 
viz., Sir John Cope's Shoestrings, the late Lord Foley's 
OSa's Dyke, and the late Lord Charles Somerset's 
Scorpion. The following was the result : Camerton, 
ridden by the late Sawyer, who died shortly after, never 
started again ; Shoestrings, by John Day, broke down ; 
Offa's Dyke, by Goodison, went blind, but recovered 
his sight ; and Scorpion, ridden by Joseph Rogers, now 
trainer at Newmarket, fell dead at the distance -post, 
from the rupture of a blood-vessel at the heart. The 
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