Melton Winner Of The Derby Stakes At Epsom 1885 As A Two Year Old He Won The New Stakes At Ascot The

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$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A portrait of the most famous British jockey of the 19th century, Fred Archer, up on Melton, winner of the 1885 St Leger and the Epsom Derby. Frederick Archer 1857-1886 , born at St. George's Cottage, Cheltenham, on 11 Jan. 1857, was the second son of William Archer, a jockey of the old school, who took over a stud of English horses to Russia in 1842, who won the Grand National at Liverpool on Little Charlie in 1858, and who eventually became landlord of the King's Arms at

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