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midst of it as bottle-holder or commentator. He 

 always displayed great partiality for Lord Glasgow's 

 horses, and would field strongly when anything of the 

 old Earl's was running at Newmarket or elsewhere ; 

 and his jubilant shout, "Lord Glasger wins T will be 

 remembered by all racegoers at that time. Fortune 

 was generally on his side. He was said to have won 

 nearly 4O,ooo/. on Ellington, and those who saw him 

 after Blair Athol's Derby needed no telling that he 

 could have been happy with either the chestnut or the 

 Glasgow bay as the winner. In his way he was a 

 Ring institution, and was as much behind the scenes 

 in the North as " Lord Frederick" in the South. 



He was emphatically a man of action everywhere. 

 The pounding-match, for a thousand a side, from 

 Crick, with Sir Frederick Johnstone, would have 

 been quite in his way ; but there was a desperate 

 hardihood about the affair which made Mr. Payne, 

 the umpire, and the friends of both parties, feel not 

 a little relieved when it fell through, as they were 

 sure that one of such a never-say-die pair would have 

 been carried off the ground on a stretcher. Sir 

 Frederick had recently jurnped a mill dam in the 

 Burton country on a bay horse with a white stripe 

 down his face, which was afterwards in Mr. Clowes's 

 stable at Quorn, and his other deeds of daring were 

 legion. Mr. Jackson had six hunters up at the time 

 Tippler and Highwayman, which he bought at 

 Mr. Hall's sale ; Barney, by Barnton, the horse on 

 which he jumped a flight of double posts and rails 

 (16 feet, measured inside) with the Bedale ; Ross 

 (by Hospodar), Redcar, and Duke. Highwayman 

 won a four-year-old prize at the Yorkshire Show, 

 and Tippler the Cup at Driffield in '64. He would 

 have ridden the latter at 14 stone if the match had 

 come off, and given more than two stone away. Grey- 

 hounds were not much in his line ; but if he was at 

 /Utcar, he went striding over the ditches, betting- 



