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at Epsom in 1770 by a fall when riding Young 

 Gimcrack in a Give-and-Take Plate), Christopher 

 Scaife, William South, John Coates (senior and 

 junior), John Oakley (who rode the famous 

 Eclipse * the first time of asking ' at Epsom, 

 May 3, 1769), Anthony Wheatley, John Mangle, 

 John Cade (lived to be seventy-five), George 

 Searle (lived to be seventy-one), and the three 

 Goodissons (' Hell-fire Dick,' the father, who rode 

 for 'Old O.,' and his two sons, Charles, cut off at 

 the age of twenty-seven in 181 3, and Thomas, 

 who eclipsed the ' old un '). 



Add to these Denis Fitzpatrick (who rode 

 Diamond in the famous match with Hamble- 

 tonian), Frank Buckle, the elder Sam Chifney 

 (the very celebrated author of ' Genius Genuine,' 

 jockey ' for life ' to the Prince of Wales, which 

 should have been up to 1807, when that life 

 ceased, and the hero of ' the slack rein ' in 

 riding), the younger Sam Chifney (won the Oaks 

 in 1807 ^^^ the Derby in 1818, 'the first time of 

 asking ' in each case, and was the hero of the 

 ' Chifney rush/ which is sometimes wrongly attri- 

 buted to the elder, the father of the other), 

 W. Clift (who lived to seventy-eight, and won the 



