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be upon the horse ; for in the list of licences published by the Jockey Club in 

 the first week of March, the names of O. Madden and Sloan did not appear. 

 Rickaby was naturally not mentioned. Two of the best were sons of Tom 

 Cannon. In less than two years after Volodyovski 's win for the Derby, of all 

 the jockeys who rode in his race, there was now no sign of L. Reiff, J. Reiff, 

 O. Madden, Rickaby, Henry, Jenkins, Pratt, or Turner. Of the competent 

 riders who might be expected to take their place there were, besides the Cannons, 

 S. Loates, Childs, Randall, Halsey, Jones, Maher, and J. H. Martin ; but the 

 remainder were either clearly second-class or certainly unknown. Luckily the 

 Derby of 1903 only brought out quite a small field. Contrast this with Wells, 

 Flatman, Aldcroft, and Fordham, the first four in Beadsman s Derby ; or with 

 Wells, Sam Rogers, Alfred Day, and William Day when Musjid won. Early in 

 1903 those old and deadly rivals William Day and John Kent were both alive, 

 residing not far from each other. Yet John Kent galloped Priam in Goodwood 

 Park in 1831, and William Day won the Ascot Cup the year Queen Victoria 

 came to the throne. Times seem to have changed suddenly indeed, not merely 

 since Buckle's day, but since the comparatively recent years of those memorable 

 feats of horsemanship when Chaloner won the Leger on Caller Ou and on the 

 Marquis, when Custance won the Brighton Stakes of 1870 for Sir Charles 

 Legard on Border Knight, when Fordham won the Cambridgeshire on Sabinus 

 and the Jockey Club Cup with Ladislas, and when Archer on Melton triumphed 

 in the Derby. 



In John Osborne's opinion, who raced a good deal against both, Archer and 

 Fordham had two different styles altogether as different as possible. " Fordham 

 rode short, and Archer long. Fordham rode more with his hands than Archer. I 

 should think he was a better jockey than Archer all round. Fordham did not punish 

 his horse so much as poor Fred, although I have seen him give ' one, two, three ' 

 on the post." Osborne rode against Jem Robinson in his first Derby, and admired 

 him immensely, as he did Frank Butler and Nat Flatman; so he forms a link 

 between the generations which, for purposes of comparison, it would be difficult to 

 beat. His best races with Archer were when he won twice on Privateer, with 

 Passaic close up, and at Liverpool, when Archer had his revenge on Voluptuary 

 against Ishmael. Against George Fordham on Fortissimo, Osborne also had a tight 

 struggle in the Goodwood Stakes, and was beaten by a head on Reveller. Fordham 

 had the knack of making horses win when nobody else could, and had a wonderfully 



