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match between Sir Joshua and Filho da Puta, Ar- 

 null rode the former with great skill. As a jockey, 

 he is generally admitted to have been less noted 

 as a scientific than as a bold and strong rider, per- 

 fectly capable, however, of doing justice to his 

 horse, and the fullest confidence was ever reposed 

 in his integrity. In private life his conduct was 

 unexceptionable. 



The next in the fatal list is Benjamin Smith, 

 the well known northern jockey, who died at 

 Littlethorpe, near Ripon, on the 27th of May. 

 Smith commenced in the stables of old John Low- 

 ther, commonly known by the nickname of Black 

 Jack, who trained horses on Bramham Moor, on 

 the Tadcaster and Leeds road. His next masters 

 were Charles Dawson of Richmond, and Old John 

 Mangles, of Middleham, the latter being the first 

 that mounted him as a jockey. Smith was not 

 long in pushing himself into notice, and we soon 

 after find him riding for the Earl of Strathmore, Sir 

 Hedworth Williamson, Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 

 and others, no longer numbered with the living. 

 He won the St. Leger six times, viz : in the 

 years 1803-8-9-11-16 and 24. In his early career, 

 he met with an accident when riding for Lord 

 Archibald Hamilton, afterwards Duke of Hamilton, 

 which merits being recorded, from the great cou- 

 rage he displayed under most extraordinary cir- 

 cumstances. It occurred at the York August 

 Meeting, in 1786, when he rode his Lordship's 



