520 HISTORY OF THE 



On the 3rd of May died, the well known trainer 

 and jockey, Wm. Pierse, of Richmond, Yorkshire, 

 aged 74 years. His death, it appears, was the 

 result of an accident, having taken, by mistake, 

 an over dose of colchicum, to ward off an incipient 

 attack of the gout, a complaint to which he had 

 long been a martyr. 



On the 5th of August, the celebrated northern 

 jockey, John Jackson, died at Northallerton, in 

 the 71st year of his age. In his day, he was 

 considered inferior to none in the saddle, and 

 enjoyed the patronage of the leading characters 

 of the turf. He carried off the St. Leger oftener 

 than ever fell to the lot of a jockey before or since, 

 having won that great stake no less than eight 

 times, viz : in 1791, on Mr. Hutchinson's Young 

 Traveller ; in 1 794, on Mr. Hutchinson's Bening- 

 brough ; in 1796, on Mr. Cookson's Ambrosio ; 

 in 1798, on Sir T. Gascoigne's Symmetry; in 

 1805, on Mr. Mellish's Staveley ; in 1813, on Mr. 

 Watts' Altisidoro; in 1815, on Sir Wm. Max- 

 well's Filho da Puta ; and in 1822, on Mr. Petre's 

 Theodore. He retired from the turf in his 55th 

 year, and at the time of his death, kept the Black 

 Swan and St. Leger Hotel, in Northallerton. 



