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best jockey to tell them, after a race, how all the 

 horses had been running. I always say that Archer 

 was the best man at startins; that I ever saw, and 

 Lord Marcus Beresford and Bobby I 'Anson will bear 

 me out in this. Archer was not only one of the finest 

 jockeys that ever wore silk, but the best behaved 

 at the starting-post, although I know it is not 

 generally thought so. I don't mean to say that he 

 would not take an advantage if the chance offered, 

 as, indeed, would any other jockey, but I don't believe 

 he ever went down with a premeditated idea of 

 getting three or four lengths' start. This he was 

 very often given the credit of doing. If ever Archer 

 was within two or three lengths of his horses, you 

 might drop the flag with the greatest confidence. 

 Generally speaking, by the time the runners got 

 together, he was with them, and very often lead- 

 ing. I used to say, " I wish they were all 

 Archers." It is easier to stop those who are in a 

 hurry than it is to get the slow ones up to their 

 horses. 



Having said so much about Archer when at the 

 starting-post, I must now say where I think my friend 

 Fordham excelled him. That was at the finish of the 

 race. Here again their style was totally different, 

 Fordham sat back in his saddle, and, as it were, drove 



