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Lord Durham then rose, and in proposing a vote of 

 thanks to the committee of the Ne\vmarket Subscrip- 

 tion Rooms for having placed the rooms in which the 

 presentation was made at the disposal of the testimonial 

 fund committee, expressed the great pleasure it gave 

 him as a North-countryman to assist at so pleasant a 

 function, and Mr. E. Tattersall having seconded the 

 motion, the proceedings, which throughout were 

 marked bv a brisk and business-like brevitv, 

 terminated. 



In addition to the cheque for 3600 guineas and 

 illuminated address, Osborne was also presented with 

 an album, in which the names of all the subscribers to' 

 the fund were inscribed. Such was the valedictory 

 tribute to his life of unblemished integrity and honour 

 as a horseman. 



John Gully once remarked that during his connec- 

 tion with the Turf he had known but three honest 

 jockeys. In that category he included Frank Buckle, 

 whpse initial effort in public was in 1781, and who rode 

 luitil his sixtv-fifth vear, a record which exceeds John 

 Osborne's by six years. Buckle up to the last could 

 ride with ease 7 st. 11 lbs. ; whereas John Osborne at 

 the close of his professional career was compelled to 

 walli great distances to keep himself under 8 st. 10 lbs. 

 or 8 St. 12 lbs. Thus the incorruptible Frank (who, 

 the first mount he had, weighed 3 st. 13 lbs), being 

 under 8 st. to the last, would find his services alwavs 

 in demand up to that weight, which was impossible in 

 John Osborne's case, for during the last two decades 

 of his riding he went to scale considerably above 8 st. 

 No man acquamted with John Osborne, now in 

 his sixty-eighth year, would care to deny that 

 Ms nerve is much deteriorated; and in this respect 



