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to /St. I2lbs., and got into the scale at that weight 

 for Pyrrhus First, at the Derby. Young Sam was 

 also a very strong good rider, and more round- 

 shouldered than any of the family. He had a fall out 

 hunting with Sir John Mills's hounds, near Parnell 

 Wood, and died three days after, at Mr. William 

 Sadler's at Longstock, where he was carried. Strange 

 to say, three hunting accidents with three very dif- 

 ferent results, took place in Hampshire on that fatal 

 morning, as Dick Burton and Councillor Moody had 

 a severe collision at a fence with Mr. Assheton 

 Smith's, and Dick's head was cut open so severely 

 with the flints, that he was unable to come out again 

 for nearly a year. He saw his hounds kill their fox 

 as he lay on the ground, and tried to stagger to them, 

 while the Councillor was stretched under the hedge, 

 with his face quite black, and Lord Bruce and Mr. 

 Sidney Herbert beside him, undoing his cravat. He 

 was carried on a hurdle to a farm-house, and awoke 

 to And his head shaved, and himself so much re- 

 covered that he could walk off. 



Young John Day was articled for johnDay.jun. 

 some time to a veterinary surgeon at 

 Oxford ; and few, when they saw his stout form 

 tearing week after week across the Ilsley Downs, with 

 " Jim Morrell" and his merry harriers in the wake of 

 " a straight-backed un," dreamt that he would rise to 

 be the eminent eight-stone jockey, with whom few, 

 even of the cracks, would care to have a race home. 

 His first winning ride was at Weymouth in 1830, on 

 Whisk, a mare of Mr. Briggs's. Wasting was with him 

 always a hard process, and three weeks before the July, 

 he had 3olbs. to get off for Crucifix. Lord George 

 presented him with 100/. after he won the Criterion, 

 ^^ 7wt for zvinuing o?i her, but for keeping yoitr temper!' 

 It was her fault after the three false starts, and she in 

 fact never forgot the dressing she received from '' Old 

 John," when she had to catch her horses in the false 



