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Bachelor at Manchester; 'and all this at a period, be 

 it remembered, when railways and locomoLives were 

 not even dreamed of; roads were not macadamized, 

 and coaches and public conve3'ances moved at the 

 rate of, perhaps, five miles an hour. At that period it 

 is very improbable that any coaches would run on the 

 line of his journeys, and doubtless he would be 

 reduced t o the necessity of riding his hack both late 

 and early to reach the several places of his destina- 

 tion.' 



'i'here died at Richmond, in Yorkshire, on April 

 21st, 1791, ' the famous old jockey,' Cliarles Dawson, 

 who, among other feats, won the Richmond Gold Cup, 

 a great prize in its day, upon Silvio, in 1764, having 

 four times previously ran second for the prize on the 

 same horse. So celebrated became this jockey far his 

 efforts on Silvio, that his residence near Richmond 

 was called Silvio Hall. In the matter of gold cups, 

 those,, in the olden time, were much sought after by 

 owners of horses. Kirton, a northern jockey of 

 renown, born in the year 1730, gained a celebrit}'^ in 

 this class of contests, and won more gold cups than 

 an}' of his contemporaries ; he also won the St. Leger 

 in the year 1784, on Omphale, soon after which event 

 he retired from his profession. Early in the present 

 century he won a cause in the law courts, being 

 declared heir to a relative who had died intestate. An 

 equine artist of the name of Herring cannot be passed 

 over, as he was killed in the performance of his duty, 

 July 27th, 1796. Much of his celebrity as a jockey 

 arose from the fact of his havimj won nineteen races 

 in succession — at the time an unparalleled occurrence. 



