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stands first on the list. Eleanor s year intervened ; but Buckle was the first to 

 emulate old Chifney exactly, when in 1802 he won the Derby on the Duke of 

 Grafton's Tyrant, and the Oaks on Mr. Wastell's Scotia. These races really put the 

 crown upon his fame, which had been growing steadily throughout the previous 

 decade ; for so unlikely were both horses' chances of victory considered, that there 

 was seven to one cheerfully offered about Tyrant, and Scotia, whose owner never 

 liked her, was only made favourite at the last minute by her mount, in a race 

 which roused much more betting than that of the previous day. In the Derby 

 Mr. Wilson's Young Eclipse, considered the best horse of his year, made play, and was 

 hotly challenged over every inch of the first mile by Sir Charles Bunbury's Orlando. 

 Buckle thought they were bound to tire, and waited with such success that he was 

 able to rush up at the finish and win on one of the worst horses that ever secured 

 " the Blue Riband." The next day proved Buckle's skill to be on as high a level as 

 his judgment, for he had asked to ride the mare himself. Three times between 

 Tattenham Corner and the finish was Scotia beaten, and three times did Buckle bring 

 her up again, and at last, " with knee and thigh and tightened rein," lifted her home 

 and screwed her in first by a head, fairly snatching the race out of the fire by fine and 

 resolute riding. The Derby of 1803 showed a very different finish to either of these, 

 for Clift was so far ahead that he " trotted past the post like a butcher boy going his 

 rounds.' But in 1806 a terrific set-to was seen between J. Shepherd on Lord Foley's 

 Paris and T. Goodison on Lord Egremont's Trafalgar, in which both horses were 

 neck and neck from Tattenham Corner, and were practically ridden to a standstill 

 twenty yards before the judge's chair, but Shepherd made a desperate push and won 

 by half a head. The double victory of Derby and Oaks was carried off, however, by 

 Goodison both in 1813 and 1815, his mounts being Smolensko and Music in the first 

 year ; Whisker and Minuet (both by Waxy, and owned by the Duke of Grafton) in 

 the second But Buckle equalled this score when in 1823 (Goodison's Leger year with 

 Barefoot] he won the Derby with Mr. Udny's Emilius by Orvillc (who was headed 

 by Tancred at Tattenham Corner) and the Oaks with the Duke of Grafton's Zinc. 



Jockeys will always remember the next year, 1824, because Jem Robinson made 

 a bet, and naturally got long odds, that he would win both Derby and Oaks and also 

 get married, all within the week. Crutch Robinson is said to have betted a 

 thousand to ten against the treble event, though he might have learnt something 

 about Jem's luck after the terrible lesson the " knowing ones " had received from 

 his mount Azor($Q to i against), which won the Derby of 1817 against The Student, 



