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dred yards from home, and came up between 

 Shepherd and the rails. Even then the north- 

 country jockey would not allow himself to be 

 beaten ; as he drove Buckle, who would otherwise 

 have won in a canter, upon the rails, and kept 

 his own knee in advance of Buckle's knee, so 

 that the latter found it impossible to extricate 

 himself from the position in which his old anta- 

 gonist held him as in a vice. In those days there 

 was no such thing as disqualification for foul rid- 

 ing, and Buckle knew full well that no complaint 

 made by him would be listened to for a moment on 

 a Yorkshire course. He contented himself, there- 

 fore, by saying to Shepherd : " It will not be 

 long, I reckon, before you and I meet again at 

 Newmarket, where you cannot drive me on the 

 rails ; and then I warn you that I will have 

 my revenge." , 



The words were prophetic, as within a few weeks 

 the two jockeys met in an important match over 

 the Beacon Course at Newmarket for a thousand 

 guineas a side. Shepherd was universally regarded 

 as a wonderful judge of pace, and resorted as usual 

 to his favourite game of making play. Buckle, on 

 the other hand, was one of the finest finishers of a 

 race that ever galloped across the Flat, and his skill 

 and finesse in getting the last ounce out of a tired 

 horse at the end of four miles have never been 

 surpassed from that day to this. In the match 

 of which I am now speaking Shepherd made the 



