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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 jockey ship 

 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 " Button's skill His treatment 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 about Quar- 

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

 ha\il "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 



