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short sight (Gladiateur's Derby and St. Leger to 

 wit), and James, the popular — too popular — light- 

 weight, a leading figure in the Marquis of 

 Hastings' Turf career — have vanished from the 

 scene, Harry having been killed in a road acci- 

 dent. S. Kenyon, again, whose mounts were 

 once followed almost as Archer's are to-day, 

 disappeared prematurely, and the name of 

 Chaloner is no longer a power on the course. 

 Still active survivors who figured in a com- 

 paratively bygone era are found in J. Osborne, 

 J. Snowden, and last, not least, George Ford- 

 ham. 



This jockey's career is remarkable. After 

 making an early appearance as the rider of a 

 Chester Cup winner (carrying 4st. 101b.), Ford- 

 ham's name is to be found in the list of classic 

 races as the rider of the winners of both One 

 Thousand Guineas and Oaks, on Mr. W. S. 

 Crawfurd's Mayonnaise and Lord Londes- 

 borough's Summerside (a daughter of West 

 Australian), in 1859. His victories were forty- 

 one in the year 1875, and for the next two years 

 Fordham was an absentee. In 1878 he returned 

 to the turf, rode fifty-eight winners, and next 

 year made a good race for supremacy with 

 Archer, who finished with 120 wins against 

 George Fordham's 105. It is much in this 



