72 THE BLUE RIBBON OF THE TURF. 



George Herring was the winner of the St. Leger 

 Stakes, on Hollandoise, in the year in which the great 

 three-year-old race of Doncaster was ' named.' 



Leonard Jewson, who died in 1817 at the age of 

 seventy-seven, was esteemed in his day as ' one of" the 

 first of jockeys.' As rider and trainer he reahzed an 

 independence, upon which he retired some years 

 before his death. William South, of Newmarket, was 

 one of the ablest horsemen of his da}' ; he died on 

 September 13th, 1791. John Oakley was also, in 

 his time, a horseman of great repute ; ' he had the 

 honour of riding i/te -most celebratrd horse Britain ever 

 produced,' namely, Captain O'Kelly's famous Eclipse, 

 the first time of his starting at Epsom, on May 

 3rd, 1769. A jockey who gained a considerable 

 reputation for riding short races at Newmarket was 

 Kichard Goodison, well known by his nickname of 

 ' Hell-Fire Dick.' He, too, was a Yorkshireman by 

 birth, and died in 1817, 'in good circumstances,' 'aged, 

 sixty-six years. Goodison was both jockey and trainer, 

 and in those capacities served the Duke of Queens- 

 berry for a long period, notwithstanding that they had 

 frequent differences of opinion, which resulted in hot 

 quarrels. The reputation of this jockey was founded 

 on the alertness with which he got away on the fall of 

 thefiag — a necessary accomplishment in a rider of short 

 races. Goodison was a bold, fearless rider, possessed 

 of great presence of mind and quickness. His successes 

 on the Rocket Gelding attracted much attention, and 

 gained him his nickname of ' Hell-Fire Dick,' One 

 of Goodison's sons obtained a reputation as a jockey 

 not inferior to that of his lather, and was in his day 



