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Arnull was only a year senior to Sam Chifney, but he 

 died nearly nineteen years before him. Lord G. H. 

 Cavendish, and Lord Exeter were his principal mas- 

 ters ; the " narrow blue stripes " of the latter having 

 been confided to his keeping when his lordship and 

 Robinson differed about a match between Recruit and 

 Goshawk. He was a good jockey, but not quite first- 

 class; and shortly before he retired and became trainer 

 to Lord Lichfield, he had grown rather idle in the 

 sweaters. His luck at Epsom commenced when he 

 was nineteen ; and he won two more Derbies, the last 

 of which was in 18 14 on Blucher, When the real 

 Field Marshal, who had won as much renown with the 

 dice in St. James's-street as he had done in the pre- 

 ceding year at the baths of Pyrmont, visited New- 

 market that summer, after his Cambridge fete, Will 

 had the honour of mounting this son of Waxy in his 

 presence, and of showing his namesake, in a strong 

 canter over the D. M., " how fields were won " in the 

 preceding May. He was a merry little fellow, up to 

 all kinds of queer games ; and many were the tricks of 

 which he was both the soul and the butt. This made 

 him a little suspicious, and he never forgot how the 

 " Black Dwarf of Newmarket " was sent him, quite 

 drunk, in a wine hamper, and roused the whole house 

 with his midnight yells from the cellar. Once, too, 

 when Mr. Gully's colt " Hokee Pokee " walked into 

 Newmarket, he demanded the name from the lad, and 

 then went off to Sam Day in no very good temper, to 

 tell him that the stable-lad had been poking his im- 

 pudence at him ; and Sam could scarcely persuade 

 him that he had been told the right name. 



Without any disrespect to the memories of Thomas 

 Goodisson and Will Arnull, whose selection from the 

 mass of Northern and Southern jockeys to ride Filho 

 da Puta and Sir Joshua in their great 1816 match is 

 their best epitaph, we may safely aver that a more 

 brilliant quartet of horsemen than Buckle, Chifney, 



