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the Guineas," in a court of law ; George Herring 

 proved himself a worthy pupil of " Black Jack" 

 Lowther, by winning nineteen races running ; and 

 John Cade and Tom Fields, who were born in the 

 same village as old Singleton, both commenced life by 

 seeing which could run fastest with the bricks as their 

 master moulded them. Frank Collinson's Epsom 

 victory on Pan indirectly led to his death in the very 

 prime of life, and just when his fine power on a horse 

 was securing him abundance of mounts, as he slept in 

 a damp bed along the Great North Road, on his 

 return, and never looked up again. 



About 1807, Shepherd, Jackson, Billy shepherd and 

 Pierse, and Ben Smfth had all the best of John Jackson. 

 the Northern riding. Shepherd had most wonderful 

 knowledge of pace, and though he seldom failed to 

 make running, was never known to overmark his horse 

 at four miles. He rode a great deal for Sir Thomas 

 Gascoyne and the Rev. Henry Goodricke, who ran his 

 horses in Mr. Gilbert Crompton's name, as well as for 

 the Duke of Leeds, Sir Mark Sykes, and Mr. Pierse. 

 The best portrait of him is on the last-named gentle- 

 man's Rosette ; but after all his hard struggles in the 

 saddle, he had a still harder one with poverty at- 

 Malton to close. Jackson, who only yielded to Bill 

 Scott in the number of his Leger victories, had a rare 

 start with Mr. Hutchinson's stable, which he knew 

 right well how to use. He had the prettiest seat of 

 the four ; but Billy Pierse, who was the shortest, had 

 the strongest and truest rush. 



On race-evenings Jackson was often excessively 

 quarrelsome, and it was long a joke against him that 

 when he bustled out of the inn at Catterick, after 

 Sykes, the trainer, to pay him off for losing him (as he 

 considered) Mr. Watts's riding, he encountered, and 

 had several rounds with a chimney-sweep, who was 

 going to his morning labour. In the harlequin jacket 

 on Tramp, Blackrock, and Altisidora, he had a great 



