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paroxysm of delirium, at his house in New- 

 market, and left personalty valued at upwards of 

 ^60,000. 



Interest is still so keenly felt in the career of 

 both Fordham and Archer that editors of sporting 

 newspapers are almost daily plied with questions 

 concerning the two jockeys, especially as regards 

 the following facts : that Fordham rode 2,369 

 winners, and Archer (who died a much younger 

 man, only twenty-nine to fifty-one), 2,748; that 

 Fordham never rode a winner of the Doncaster 

 St. Leger, and only one, Sir Bevys, of the Derby ; 

 that the last horse ridden by Fordham was Mr. 

 Leopold Rothschild's Aladdin, at Windsor August 

 Meeting, 1884, and the last winner ridden by 

 him was the same gentleman's Brag for the 

 Brighton Autumn Cup in 1883 ; and that the 

 last horse ridden by F. Archer was the evergreen 

 Tommy Tittlemouse, and the last winner Blanch- 

 land. 



Moreover, it was only the other day that the 

 veteran jockey, John Osborne, was the 'hero of a 

 presentation and a compliment unprecedented in 

 the history of jockeydom and the British turf. The 



