FRANCIS BUCKLE AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS RIDERS. 



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fohn Day, Stti. 



John Day,Juit. 



exhibition of " Old John " in the Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 1830, when he sat 

 still and never moved on Bay Middleton, while John was hard at work with whip and 

 heel on Elis. In fact, Bill Scott, John Day, 

 and Sam Rogers, were good rough jockeys, 

 but not in the same class with men like 

 Alfred Day, Sam Chifney, Jem Robinson, or 

 Fordham. It may have been training and 

 betting rather got on "Old John's" mind 

 towards the last, but his earlier riding was 

 certainly better than his later. He was very 

 active, and extremely clever at holding such 

 a puller as Touchstone was, though he was far from despising curb-bridles like Chifney, 

 and he never won the Derby, though he got five Oaks. He always enjoyed the 

 memory of his victory on Amphitrite over Robinson on Mixbury almost as much as 

 having beaten Buckle for the Riddlesworth. Old John's son, Alfred, was the best 

 jockey of the family, who rode Shocking Mamma in the Cesarewitch of 1843 at 4 st - 7^- 

 His first big win was against Sam Rogers, Templeman, Job Marson, Jem Robinson, 

 Frank Butler, Chappie, and Flatman, when he scored in the One Thousand. His 

 great race on Andover soon after brought more than a heavy stake to the Danebury 

 party, and with his name I pass on to a few more considerations of the changes that 

 took place in the course of the nineteenth century. 



By permission of his Grandchildren. 



Ke/ia of Frank Buckle. 



