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age of seventy-five, and then died from a chemist's 

 mistake in preparing his medicine), the two Col- 

 linsons (of whom one died of illness produced by 

 sleeping in a damp bed, after winning the Derby 

 on Pan in 1808 by masterly riding, and the other 

 of an accident while breaking a horse at Middle- 

 ham), John Pratt (who died at the age of eighty- 

 nine at Newmarket in 1829), James Garbutt (who 

 seems to have committed suicide in 1841), Samuel 

 Burden or Burdon (who is said to have been 

 killed in riding a match at Newmarket, in April, 

 1770), George Herring (jockey to the stable of 

 the celebrated trainer, John Lowther, known as 

 ' Black Jack,' of Bramham Moor, Tadcaster), who 

 was three times thrown off, and the third time 

 killed by Mr. John Hutchinson's Gipsy, sister to 

 the famous Hambletonian, at Hull races, in 1796 

 (after, and it is supposed in consequence of, which 

 accident racing was put a stop to at Hull), F. or 

 J. Boynton (who rode Filho da Puta in the 

 memorable race for the Richmond Cup in 181 5), 

 Thomas Fields, John Tesseyman, C. Hindley, 

 and, above all, the celebrated Jem Robinson, 

 whose bright light had just begun to dawn, and 

 of whom it is recorded — probably in his epitaph — 



