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— " Butcher Boys " — How to make a jockey — Routine life at 

 Brecongill — Failures and successes — Tom Connor and the 

 "Parson's" tales, - 432 



CHAPTER XXIII 



Contemporaries compared — Parallel between John Day and John 

 Osborne — The best jockey he ever rode against — George 

 Fordham — Harry Custance's tribute to his old rival — Jim 

 Snowden and Archer — Lorette's luck — Double dead heat at 

 Carlisle — Visit to Middleham — Bad horses in the North — 

 Jockeys' nicknames — Stealing a march on Archer and 

 Constable — " Push and screw " — Some old jockeys : Frank 

 Buckle, Singleton, Jim Robinson, the Chifneys — Tom Heart- 

 field's opinion — Fordham in a " corner by himself " — 

 Presentation of the " Osborne Testimonial " — Frank Buckle 

 and John Osborne's career — Waiting tactics of Sam Chifney 

 — Mr. Smurthwaite's recollections, - - - - - 447 



CHAPTER XXIV 



Richmond and "Old Jim"Watson — Glory of the North departing — 

 Migration of owners to the South — Affluence of jockeys — A 

 long career — Old trainers and jockeys compared — Honesty 

 the best policy — King Crow's victories — Mr. " John " to the 

 fore — A happy vmion — The Vyners and Osborne — Judge 

 Johnson's "cracks" — His recollection of "Old John" — Lord 

 Clifden — Apology's year — Handicapping — Voltigeur and 

 Russborough's dead heat — Horses finer bred nowadays — 

 Vedette — Job Marson — Great horses — Increased value of 

 stakes — John Jackson and " Old John " — Lord Glasgow and 

 the handicapper — An unlucky fellow ; born with £120,000 

 a year — Bee's-wing, Bill Scott, and Jim Robinson — Fine 

 finishers — The Judge's opinion on jockeys past and present 

 — Epaminondas's Chester Cup, 474 



