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the " London and York Highflyer," in order 

 better to learn the business of painting 

 horses. He held the reins as coachman for 

 about three years, beginning in 18 18, and 

 throwing them aside in 182 1, when Mr. T. 

 O. Powlett's Jack Spigot won the St. Leger. 

 This was the first of Herring's St. Leger 

 winners, and also the first of Bill Scott's 

 many triumphs in Yorkshire's greatest race. 

 Mr. J. B. Muir, the most indefatigable of 

 delvers in the mines of the past, has lately 

 exhumed the additional fact that Jack Spigot 

 was trained at Middleham, by J. Blades, 

 Mr. Powlett's private trainer. Here let me 

 turn to "The Druid's" pages (" Scott and 

 Sebright," pages 85-91), for a description of 

 Mr. J. F. Herring's declining years, which 

 were passed at Meopham, near Tonbridge 

 in Kent, where "The Druid" visited him 

 and recorded his experience in the following 

 words : — 



44 4 Him go vip, vip, vip ; vot he know 

 about horses?' said a jealous old artist, when 

 Herring, the well-known coachman of the 

 4 London and York Highflyer,' had thrown 

 aside the reins in Jack Spigot's year, and 



