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including a Two Thousand with Chamant, two 

 St. Legers with Petrarch and Rayon d'Or, the 

 first Grand Prix with The Ranger, and three 

 French Derbies and a half, with Insulaire in 1878, 

 with Zut in 1879, with Albion (on the rider's 

 forty-third birthday) in 1881, and with Dandin 

 (a dead-heat with St. James) in 1882. His light 

 weight and his riding in France call to mind 

 another jockey, Kitchener, whose bodily weight, 

 when he won the Chester Cup on the Duke of 

 Richmond's Red Deer (3 years, 4 stone) in 1844, 

 is a constant subject of curiosity on the part of 

 the public, to judge from the sporting papers' 

 ' Answers to Correspondents,' and is invariably 

 stated by a great authority to have been 2 st. 

 12 lb. On the other hand, Mr. John Kent, in 

 his ' Racing Life of Lord George Bentinck,' 

 p. 122, mentions ' the tiny jockey, Kitchener, who 

 weighed only 3 st. 4 lb.;' and, as Mr. Kent had 

 the boy under his charge, one would suppose that 

 this estimate is the more trustworthy. 



Mr. J. B. Muir, who seems to think that the 

 excellent rule ' palmam qui meruit ferat ' has been 

 neglected grossly in the case of the men who 

 have trained from time to time the winners of our 



