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Scot Free — Mr. Fry's belief in Osborne and his in Platt- 

 Jack Hammond and Charley Rayner — Some Richmond 

 finishes — Stone Clink and Selby — Archer and Osborne's two 

 struggles at Liverpool — "Jack as good as his master" — A 

 battle between North and South — A fine trial of jockeyship 

 — Chiselhurst and St. Simon — Courtier and Fraga's match at 

 York — A tussle between Jim Snowden and "Johnnie" — 

 Some Richmond tight-fits — Lawminster's Great Yorkshire — 

 Archer's wasting — Jack Kellet and Teddy Martin — George 

 Johnson and Chesterman — A reverie in Gosforth Park — 

 Symposium of trainers— John Henry Shepherd and Tom 

 Green— The "early bird "—" Brother William "—Tapping 

 his memory — Lord Glasgow's trainers — Some Middleham 

 jockeys — The Miner and Blair Athol — Lambton and Exact — 

 George Abdale — The "Pretender Ball" — Tom Dawson's 

 "Hoich, hoich" — A midnight conflagration — Stone Clink 

 and Nightcap — Midway through the "eighties" — The 

 Durham accident — Hairbreadth escapes of our hero — 

 First accident at Carlisle in '49, and others at Doncaster, 

 Chester — "Doctor" Hutton's skill — His treatnaent of Lady 

 Castlereagh — " Paddy " Drislane's opinion — The Hull and 

 Liverpool accidents — Stone Clink's Cesarewitch — St. Gatien 

 defeats her — Mr. Robert C. Vyner's patronage, - - - 331. 



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Tragic end of Fred Archer — His retaining fees — His attributes 

 and characteristics as a horseman — Light-weight racing 

 system condemned — Archer's wealth — Archer's opinion on 

 betting — Some anecdotes — Pulling a tooth out — Dick 

 Marsh and "Mr. Manton"— "The Duchess" and "The 

 Major" — Old Harry Hall and "Mr. John" barter abovit Quar- 

 tus — " The Squire " buys him and " Old Harry " has a great 

 haul — "Johnnie" loses his temper and uses his whip — 

 Minting, Bendigo, and Ormonde at Ascot — A great race — 

 Gloriation's Cambridgeshire — Osborne and Bendigo — Ayr- 

 shire's " Two Thousand " — A chance mount for our hero — 

 Overthrow of Friar's Balsam — The Hull accident — " Paddy " 

 Drislane and Tom Spence — " Paddy " and the monkey — 



