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Peirse, the trainer, and while his weight permitted, 

 was in much requisition as a jockey. Being com- 

 pelled to relinquish his business as a jockey, he 

 for some time turned hunting groom, until a hand- 

 some legacy, left him by his master, enabled him 

 to commence as trainer with Col. Mellish. Atkin- 

 son's best horses were Sancho and Staveley, (both 

 winners of the St. Leger), Stockton, Eagle, Bedale, 

 Smuggler, Streatham Lass, Mowbray, The En- 

 graver, &c. 



On the 29th of April, Wilham Arnull, the well 

 known jockey, died at Newmarket, in the 50th 

 year of his age, from the effects of the gout, to 

 which he had been a martyr for many years. His 

 father was John Arnull, the jockey to the Prince of 

 Wales towards the close of the last century, and 

 who won the Derby, upon Sir Frank Standish's 

 Archduke, in 1799. Wm. Arnull learned the 

 rudiments of his profession in the stables of Frank 

 Neale, and soon brought himself into notice for 

 his courage and the firmness of his seat. Much 

 of his early success is to be attributed to Richard 

 Boyce, the trainer of the large stud of Messrs. 

 Shakespeare and Ladbroke, who lost no opportu- 

 nity of promoting the interest of the young jockey, 

 with whom he was connected by marriage, they 

 having married two sisters. He won the Derby 

 four times, viz : on Hannibal in 1804, Cardi- 

 nal Beaufort in 1805, Mr. Ladbroke's Octavius 

 in 1812, and in 1814 upon Blucher. In the great 



