The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-12-30
RISKS OF RIDING RACES.
Jockeys Raced to Thsir Graves
London Telegraph.


London Telegraph.
There are few spots more attractive to the
Old Mortalities of the Turf than the grave
yards at Newmarket, and man who Is well
acquainted with the history Of horse-raeing
may wander at will through the precincts of
All Saints Church, and through the new
cemetery at the top of a. The little town In
Cambridgeshire,r without ever coming
across the grave of jockey who has died
a violent death In pursuit of his profession.
There will he find stone after stone which
records that beneath lie the remains OF jock
eys who have gone to their final rest In the
course of nature, and often in the fnllness Of
years. Less than twenty miles away the
body of Frank Buckley lies eniombed at
Long orton, near Peterborough, suggesting
the thought that, as man and boy, he followed
his profession actively for fifty years, without
ever sust staining an accident of any kind, and
that, taken altogether. his was the finest and
least mercenary character that ever distin-
guished member of his trying craft. Re-
verting to Newmarket, We shall find that In
the churchyard of All Saints, repose the
ashes Of Elnathan Flatman, who won the
Derby on Orlando, the St. Leger on Surplice,
Warlock, and Imperieuse, and the Two
Thousand Guineas oil Idas, Hernandez, and
Fazzoletto, without ever sustaining All acci-
dent In the saddle. The only casualty which
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wears was from kick in the ribs which he
sustained In the stable from afilly belonging
| to the late Duke of Bedford. by his side
| lies his great Antagonist, and his superior as
| a match rider, Frank Butler, who steered two
winners of the Derby, two of the st. Leger
| and two of the Two Thousand Guineas to
victory, without experiencing any mshap
| One narrow escape from death or disability
| fl is true, he was fortunate enough to emerge
from without broken limb. when, in the
| Derby of 1S45, which was won by Merry
Monarch, he bestrode Lord Chesterfield's I
Pam, and was capsized by Mentor, as the
field of thirty-one horses swept round Tat
tenham Corner. There was no story which
Frank Butler was more fond of relating thar
that in which he described how he was strug
Cling with his PROSTATE horse and how he es
capped from seemingly inevitable death, or, al
any rate, from the fracture of limb, by th'
lucky circumstance that Old England ane
Weatherbit leaped over him and his horse a.
they lay on the ground amidst the thunder
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rounded. Close to the grav. Of Flatman il
that Of Patrick Connolly, who rode Plenipo
tentiary and Coronation in their respective
Derbies, and completed his career withou
accident. In the cemetery at the top of th'
town lies Tom French, the rider Of King
craft and Favonius In the great race at Ep
som, who subsequently, capitulated to all en-
envy against whom neither jockeys nor or
dinary men are proof-tubercular consump
tion. Hard by rests allthat is mortal of jim
Robinson, one of the most finished aud &C
complished horsemen that were ever tosse'
iuto the saddle, who died In ripe old age
having ridden for the greater part Of lon
lifetime without sustaining an accident un
til he fell and broke his thigh, his stirrur
leather having given away, from colt be
longing to the late Lord Clifden.
Turning to the north Of England, we com
across the graves of jockeys without numbe
who had no reason to speak of their callin
as specially full of peril. In the sportin
county of York, Bill Scott, who rode min
ST. Leger and four Derby winners withou
disasters, lies In his narrow bed, to which
lnordiuate love of the bottle rather than TIL
perils of the race-course prematurely col
signed him. In the neighborhood Of Middle
ham are the graves Of Tommy Lye and {
Job Marson, who will live in turf history s
long as the racing animals of the nineteent
century shall continue To find chronicles
while i'm the East Riding Sim Templemal
who rode his first race more than fifty yea
since, and won his first Derby upon Blooms
bury In 1880, still survives, q hale aud heart
veteran, though bereft of sight. Time hi
also spared Charles NARROW, inseparabl
identified with memories of the Flyir
Dutchman, but doomed, like many Others
, bis craft, to pass his declining years IN q
jeet poverty. The only jockey connects
with Yorkshire who was instantaneous
killed by being precipitated from his hor
D when riding race at Hull was one long TO
gotten by the present generation of turf ha
) itues, If, indeed, his name-George Herrii
. has ever been heard by them. AT the cor
: .~no.an.cort ,f 1907 EamuaI Chifnav died
( great distress at his lodgings in Fleet Ian
| within the rules of the adjoining priso
4 which has long passed away. Although,
. the opinion of his contemporaries, be had
4 equal In the pigskin, his nerve was notol
. ously deficient, nor would he have ridden +
: so many years had he deemed theprofessis
I of which he was so successful a memb
0 specially obnoxious to risk.
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