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out), were Jack Holmes (who had many a san- 

 guinary ride, so far as the spurred horse was con- 

 cerned, on the ' savage ' General Chasse), Sam 

 Darling, George Calloway (who rode Touchstone 

 for the St. Leger), J. Day, jun., and S. Day, jun., 

 and Edgar Pavis (who was brother to the more 

 celebrated Arthur, and was taken into the service 

 of the short-lived Due d'Orleans). 



To these we may add E. Edwards, John, 

 Edward, and Henry Wright, Elnathan Flatman 

 (commonly called ' Nat '), Sim Templeman, Mar- 

 low (of ' Flying Dutchman ' renown), Wintring- 

 ham, J. Gray, F. Buckle, jun., Norman, Forth 

 (trainer and owner), W. Day (the ' author ' of 

 these latter days), J. Cartwright, G. Boast (owner 

 and trainer), C. Wakefield, T. Nicholson, W. 

 Weatherill, Thomas Greathead, T. Shepherd, W. 

 Macdonald, R. Bowes, J. Jaques, Noble (Mark, 

 William, and George), R. Heseltine (owner and 

 trainer, and an echo from the past, when a Hesel- 

 tine was ' groom-in-waiting ' to the legendary Old 

 Merlin), Job Marson (of ' Nutwith ' fame), S. 

 Mann, S. Rogers (who had the misfortune to be 

 'warned off'), and notably Job Marson's contem- 

 porary and rival (if not superior), the accomplished 



