HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



Derby 'in a trot' in 1803), the several Arnulls 

 and Arnolds (reasonably suspected of having been 

 the same name, spelt phonetically, at a time when 

 there were no School Boards and the schoolmaster 

 was not so much abroad as he now is), ' Bob ' 

 Johnson (identified with Dr. Syntax, and especially 

 with Mr. Orde and 'the old mare' Beeswing), the 

 Edwardses (whose multitudinousness at New- 

 market led George P. to imagine that it was an 

 appellation of jockeys similar to the Pharaoh of 

 Egyptian kings), John Jackson (who lived to the 

 age of sixty-four or seventy-one, according to 

 different authorities, won the St. Leger no fewer 

 than eight times, and was destined to ride Theo- 

 dore, winner of the most sensational St. Leger on 

 record, except, perhaps, that which was lost by 

 Plenipotentiary), and the Spartan-like Ben Smith 

 (who met with every kind of accident, and in 1796 

 rode Ironsides, and won the race — -four miles — for 

 the Great Subscription at York after he had been 

 kicked at the starting-post by Mr. Garforth's 

 Brilliant and had his leg broken, so that after the 

 race he had to be carried off his horse to the 

 weighing-room). 



There were also William Peirse (who lived to the 



