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On the elder Scaife's retirement from the stable 

 1808, his son John succeeded him, and retained 

 the situation till 1825, when it was placed in the 

 hands of Clift and his son Thomas. 



The successors of Old Scaife, as his Lordship's 

 jockies, were, a son of his, young Christopher 

 Singleton, for a short time, then John Singleton, 

 Jun. (nephew to the Old Singleton,) till the end 

 of 1802 ; John Jackson from that period till 1804, 

 succeeded by Old Shepperd, till 1806 ; when the 

 present veteran, Wm. Clift, obtained the appoint- 

 ment, which he filled with honour for many years, 

 until the encroachments of age obliged him to 

 resign it. After him, Thomas Lye rode for Lord 

 FitzwiUiam for about two years, and was super- 

 seded by Henry Edwards, the last jockey who rode 

 for the late Earl, 



In 1831, the Earl retired from the turf, upon 

 the advice of his relations, occasioned by some 

 circumstances connected with the race at York in 

 that year, when his horse, Medora, was beaten by 

 Lord Scarborough's Cambridge, and the Duke of 

 Leeds' Jenny Mills, entirely owing to the bad 

 riding of Edwards — which was so bad, indeed, 

 as almost to warrant the conclusion of its having 

 been intentionally so. 



On the 9th of March in this year, Ralph Riddell, 

 Esq., of Felton Park, near Morpeth, Northumber- 

 land, died, universally esteemed. This worthy 



