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Majesty's guineas at Richmond (Yorkshire) in 1725. 

 Young Timms was born in 1726. and became in time 

 a horseman of some celebrity, when he rode for the 

 Dukes of Ancaster and Devonshire, Lord Downe and 

 others. His death took phice in the year 1791, on 

 30th September. 



Singleton senior, who, it has been said, was the best 

 jockey of his time, was born in Yorkshire in the year 

 1715, and died at the ripe age of seventy-eight years, 

 fifty of which were passed in his business. As show- 

 ing the difference between then and now, it has to be 

 stated that the father of John Singleton brought up 

 his family and supported his wife and himself on 

 wages of fourpence a day — all he could earn. Under 

 such circumstances his children had a hard life of it, 

 rendered still harder when their bread-winner died. 



At a tender age, the future jockey began to earn his 

 own bread in the pastoral Occupation of helping to 

 herd a flock of cattle which were grazed on Ross 

 Moor, eiofht miles from which could be seen the wold 

 hills, then famous as a training - ground. Young 

 Singleton's fancy was fired by hearing of the race- 

 horses trained thereabouts ; so in the end he ran away 

 from home, and one morning early was found at the 

 door of Mr. VVilberforce Read, near the wolds then 

 unenclosed. Being just in want of a boy, Mr. Read 

 engaged John Singleton on the then easily understood 

 terms of ' board and lodging,' which meant simjjy a 

 bed among the straw, and the run of the kitchen 

 when there was anything to eat. Between master 

 and boy, thus brought together, a friendship began 

 which lusted throughout their respective lives. Mr. 



