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either whip or spur, it is said, and yet, by simple 

 strokine and talking" and an occasional hiss, he 

 could always be made to do his best, even to 

 falling from exhaustion, as he is said to have 

 done in his last race, when he broke down in 

 winning the Gold Cup at Richmond, Yorks, in 

 1823 (which raises the question whether more 

 might not be done by gentle treatment than is 

 dreamt of in jockeys' philosophy). He became 

 paralyzed in 1838, and in July or August of that 

 year was mercifully shot behind the Palace at 

 Newmarket (in the presence of several trainers 

 and jockeys, who had been invited to do him the 

 last honours, and who, having given ' three times 

 three ' over his grave, toasted his memory in a 

 bumper). But already he had * illustrated himself 

 at the stud by begetting the ill-fated Ralph (winner 

 of the Two Thousand and Ascot Cup, and victim 

 of the murderous * nobbier,' who poisoned him), 

 and, above all, Mr. Orde's famous Beeswing 

 (winner of Cups, and dam of Nunnykirk and 

 Newminster), ' the pride of Northumberland.' 



Mr. Ralph Neville's (Lord Braybooke's) Sir 

 Joshua, son of Rubens, was the hero of the 

 famous match in which (at Newmarket Craven, 



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