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regarded as one of the worst horses that ever won a race, 

 and, in the Oaks, he rode Mr. Wastell's Scotia, which 

 was beaten three times in the course of the race, though 

 Buckle got her finally in front, and won by a head. He 

 won the Doncaster St. Leger with Sancho. In 1823 

 he won three races at Ascot, one being the Oatlands 

 Stakes, in which his mount was Mr. Ramsbottom's Bay 

 Burton. Buckle made his first public appearance in 1783, 

 and soon afterwards entered the service of the Earl of 

 Grosvenor, with whom he remained for many years. He 

 continued to ride in public till he was more than sixty- 

 five years old. 



James Robinson was the son of a training groom and, 

 as a boy, was in the stables of Mr. Robson, the chief 

 of the Newmarket trainers. He gained much of his skill 

 by riding in many of the trials of the extensive stud of his 

 master, and rose to be a jockey of highest fame and perfect 

 horsemanship. He was supposed to have ridden the 

 winners of more great races than any jockey of his time. 

 In 1823 he won the Derby and the St. Leger, receiving 

 ^1000 as a reward for the latter achievement. In the 

 following year he won the Derby and Oaks in the same 

 week. He won no fewer than sixty-nine races at Ascot, 

 taking the Gold Cup in 1830, 1831, 1832, 1835, and 

 1839 ; Her Majesty's Gold Vase in 1840 and 1842 ; and 

 the celebrated Eclipse Foot in 1833, in which year he 

 won four other races at Ascot. 



William Arnull was born in the year 1785. His 

 father, John Arnull, was a celebrated jockey in the latter 

 part of the eighteenth century, having won the Derby ot 

 1799, for Sir Frank Handish, on Archduke. William 



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