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OLD BUCKLE. 



and trying career. His last race was on Coloned Udney's 

 Conservator, on the 5th of November, 1831, which, by a 

 singular coincidence, was the very day on which he had, 

 fifty years before, commenced his public life, having entered 

 Mr Vernon's stables on the 5th of November, 1781. But 

 though determined that that should be his last public ap- 

 pearance on the Turf, little did Buckle think, when shaking 

 hands with a circle of old friends at the October Meeting, 

 that parting was to be their last; and sincere was the 

 feeUng of regret to many a kind heart, when looking round 

 for him in the coming Spring, "his place knew him no 

 more." May he rest, as he rode, easily ! — -niay he come 

 true to the scale ! — and may the Turf which he adorned 

 while living, bloom lightly on his grave '. - 



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