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and Lamplighter also ended in Robinson's favour, and 

 both horses were so beaten that they could hardly keep 

 the track. Mr. Gully had stationed himself in the 

 Abingdon Mile Bottom ; and as Robinson — although 

 beaten fifty yards — found that Lamplighter must come 

 back on the hill, he called out to him, '' All right P' 

 The Ring at the Duke's Stand thought the great book- 

 maker for once in his life fairly bewitched, till they 

 saw the horse he galloped off to pepper, fairly stand 

 still, two hundred yards from home. Four years 

 after Mr. Gully stood on the rails near the Red House 

 at Doncaster ; and in spite of Margrave's dwelling 

 action, and Birdcatcher seeming a winner to every 

 other eye, he became the speaker in his turn, and 

 shouted out, " I've won /" in tones which rose to 

 Robinson's ear above the thunder clatter of the 

 seventeen. 



But to resume. It was on Sam Chifney ^ r-uf 



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rather than on Buckle, that Robmson 

 principally fashioned his riding. Great as was his 

 admiration of Frank, he always maintained that he 

 '^ Jiadnt Sam's fiddling •" and true enough Sam's 

 fingers on the reins, when a horse had a delicate 

 mouth, went like the feet of a dancer on the tight- 

 rope. There was no greater treat to Jim than watch- 

 ing them at their dainty work, when he made the run- 

 ning in a trial. " You might as well look for a rat as 

 for CJiifney r and " First find out what he's doing, and 

 then beat him ;" were also great sayings of Robinson's, 

 and Sam unexpectedly took his pipe out of his mouth, 

 and thus returned the compliment one evening, in the 

 shape of a rebuke to little Arthur Pavis, who was 

 boasting that he would as soon ride a match with 

 Robinson as anybody — " You ride with him ! you'd 

 better go to bed !" The tone of contempt was such as 

 poor Job assumed, when some one asked him who was 

 to ride Melissa against Fandango in the Doncaster 

 Cup ; and just half pointing with his whip over his 



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