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weeks later, however, he beat a o-oocl held at 

 Barnet, |im Mason jumpino- a fiight of bullock 

 rails extra with him, cii route to the weighing place. 



The redoubtable Jim was a tremendous dandy, 

 his coats all coming from Poole, who, it was said, 

 found it well worth his while to supply him with 

 them free gratis for nothing, whilst the story went 

 that the top boots he is represented wearing in 

 Herring's well-known picture "Steeplechase Cracks," 

 were the joint work of two distinct boot-makers, 

 Bartley of Oxford Street doing the legs, and Wren 

 of Knightsbridge the feet. He invariably wore 

 white kid gloves too when riding, as depicted in 

 the picture just named. 



The late Major Whyte- Melville was very fond 

 of introducing him into his novels, and the 

 portrait of Mr. Varnish, the swell horse dealer, 

 who Mr. Sawyer took for a real live lord, during 

 his famous visit to the Shires, was recognisable at 

 once. 



This great horseman — the most celebrated per- 

 haps of the century he lived in — died in October, 

 1866, and was buried at Kensal Green, not a great 

 way from the scene of many of his riding exploits. 



Speaking of Lottery's owner — or rather part 

 owner, Mr. Yates, father of the one and only Arthur, 



