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deserved a vates sacer, if for no other reason than that 

 the example of as honest a jockey as ever got into 

 the saddle might with great advantage have been 

 held up for imitation and emulation by other mem- 

 bers of that dangerous profession. No trainer, 

 except William Chiffhey, has thus far found a place 

 in this storehouse of biographies, and no jockey, with 

 the exception of George Fordham. It is earnestly 

 to be hoped that among the lives still to be treated, 

 those of Robert Robson, once called the " Emperor 

 of Trainers," of James Robinson, the Prince of 

 jockeys, of John Scott of Whitewall House, Mai ton, 

 and of his brother, Bill Scott, will not be forgotten. 

 As regards other trainers and jockeys, few, I fear, 

 are likely to find admission to pages which ought 

 surely to be devoted to quicquid agunt homines. It 

 is true that in the memoir of the three Chiffneys 

 mention is made of " the famous jockey, Frank 

 Butler," who was nephew to the younger Sam 

 Chiffney and of William, his brother. When, how- 

 ever, Frank Buckle, the Dawsons, the two John 

 Days, Alfred Day, Flatman, Conolly, Forth, Frank 

 Butler, Job Marson, and many others, are unnoticed, 

 and only the two Chiffneys and George Fordham 

 mentioned, there is a sense of incompleteness in 

 the ensemble of a work to which in other respects 

 I myself owe deep obligations, and which, in the 

 regularity with which its volumes appear, and in its 

 general fulness, accuracy and excellence, awakens 



