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upon pleasant memories of how he had ridden 

 Bloomsbury to victory in the famous ' snowstorm ' 

 Derby, had won the Derby on The Cossack and 

 SurpHce, the Oaks on Miami, Cymba, and Mar- 

 chioness, and the St. Leger on the great New- 

 minster, sire of Hermit. H. Custance, who won 

 the Derby on Thormanby and George Frederick, 

 was prevented by a provoking broken arm or 

 collar-bone from riding Lord Lyon in the Two 

 Thousand (in which his place was taken by 

 Thomas, a stable-boy), as well as in the Derby 

 and the Leger, and retired from jockeyship to 

 other functions connected with the turf. ' Tiny ' 

 Wells, whose proper Christian name was John, 

 who won the St. Leger on Saucebox as early 

 as 1855, was so long identified with Sir Joseph 

 Hawley's successes, In the days of Fitz-Roland, 

 Beadsman, Musjid, Blue Gown, and Pero Gomez, 

 and their Two Thousand, Derbies, and St. Leger; 

 whom memory still recalls sitting like Patience 

 on a monument upon Count Batthyany's Tam- 

 bour Major (that refused for three-quarters of an 

 hour to start for the Derby of 1863, answered 

 every bit of ' persuasion ' by a firm planting of the 

 fore-feet in the ground and a vigorous tilt of the 



