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pagne Stakes nine times, and the Two Year 

 Old Stakes six times over the latter course. 

 His principal Cup victories were achieved for 

 the late Marquis of Westminster on Touch- 

 stone. He had always an immense advan- 

 tage over other jockeys, as he had the pick 

 of his brother John's Leviathan stable, while 

 the others were obliged to mount anything 

 they received orders for. It was his fate to be 

 engaged in the only two dead heats ever run 

 off thus far in the great events at Epsom and 

 Doncaster. In the south on The Colonel he 

 finished second best — was indeed outridden 

 by Jim Robinson on Cadland ; but he 

 reversed the decision in the north on Charles 

 XII. in a similar second round. After The 

 Colonel's dead heat, Bill betrayed very great 

 nervousness, and many who saw his agitated 

 manner as he stood sucking an orange in the 

 weighing house, just before mounting his 

 chestnut, laid heavily against him on the 

 strength of it, especially as Robinson's nerve 

 in those days was imperturbable. Eleven 

 years later, at Doncaster, Bill Scott evinced 

 no such symptoms, as he was on his own 

 ground and felt confident that if he only 



