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Kettledrum in iS6i ; and James Snowden, whose 

 privilege it was to ride Blair Athol at the horse's 

 first appearance in public, and to win the Derby 

 then and there. 



To these should be added Charlton, J. Daley, 

 J, Mann, T. French (' eques ipso melior Bellero- 

 phonte'), Maidment, J. Parsons (for the reason 

 that he was only a stable-lad when he unex- 

 pectedly had to ride the outsider Caractacus for 

 the Derby, and won it, and because ridiculously 

 untrue stories were told about the remuneration 

 he received for the feat), and the lately deceased 

 James Goater, who died at Park Lane, New- 

 market, on April 6, 1892, aged fifty-four. He 

 proved (especially in France) that he was ' haud 

 ulli veterum virtute secundus ' (though he never 

 won either Derby or Oaks or One Thousand 

 in England), by his many victories. He won 

 with Joe Miller and the feather-weight of 4 st. 

 10 lb. the Chester Cup of 1852, when there were 

 forty-three runners ; and he continued through 

 many years, with Lord Portsmouth's horses for 

 awhile, and then with Comte Lagrange's for 

 a much longer while (to say nothing of Lord 

 Dupplin's Petrarch), to win a number of races, 



