FRANCIS BUCKLE AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS RIDERS. 



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if by nothing else, by the great match at York on Voltigeur against The Flying 

 Dutchman. 



The names of Day and Danebury are as famous on the Turf of the first half of the 

 nineteenth century as those of Scott and Whitewall. Old John Day's first great 

 victory was over Buckle, when he won both the One Thousand and the Two 



Thousand for the Duke of Grafton, who gave him "^"20 in banknotes of Messrs. 



Bank at Bury St. Edmunds, most highly respectable Bankers." There was one place, 

 however, in England, where Old John was not well known, and that was in the 



BY permission of the Duke of Westminster. 



Pantaloon" (1824) by " Castret." 



House of Commons, where the policeman did not recognise the name at all, and Lord 

 Palmerston's visitor had to wait some time until the owner of lliuna was brought to 

 where " more important stuff than politics " awaited him. John had a brother named 

 Sam, who rode, and there was also a young Sam ; in fact, " quite sufficient Days to 

 make a week of winners," as a wag of the period declared. Young John's first win 

 was on Mr. Brigg's Whisk at Weymouth in 1830, and his beating of Robinson on 

 Old En oland has been already mentioned. He was not so lucky on Ugly Buck, when 

 the same jockey rushed up at the post on Minotaur ; and Jem fairly made an 



