# Job Marson
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{{Short description|English jockey}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2015}}
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{{Infobox horseracing personality
| name = Job Marson
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| image = Teddington Derby winner.jpg
| caption = Teddington, winner of the 1851 Epsom Derby, with trainer Alec Taylor and jockey Job Marson. Painting by [John Frederick Herring, Sr.](/source/John_Frederick_Herring%2C_Sr.) (1795-1865)
| occupation = [Jockey](/source/Jockey)
| birth_date = 1817
| birth_place = [Malton](/source/Malton%2C_North_Yorkshire), [North Riding of Yorkshire](/source/North_Riding_of_Yorkshire)
| death_date = 11 September 1857 (aged 40)
| death_place = [Middleham](/source/Middleham), [North Riding of Yorkshire](/source/North_Riding_of_Yorkshire)
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| race = '''Major races'''
[1,000 Guineas Stakes](/source/1%2C000_Guineas_Stakes) (1851)
[Ascot Gold Cup](/source/Ascot_Gold_Cup) (1851, 1853)
[Epsom Derby](/source/Epsom_Derby) (1850, 1851)
[St Leger](/source/St_Leger) (1843, 1847, 1850)
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| horses = [Aphrodite](/source/Aphrodite_(horse)), [Nutwith](/source/Nutwith_(horse)), [Teddington](/source/Teddington_(horse)), [Van Tromp](/source/Van_Tromp_(horse)), [Voltigeur](/source/Voltigeur_(horse)), [Woolwich](/source/Woolwich_(horse))
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'''Job Marson''' (1817–1857) was an English [classic](/source/British_Classic_Races)-winning [jockey](/source/jockey), whose most famous partnership was with [Voltigeur](/source/Voltigeur_(horse)), winner of the 1850 [Derby](/source/Epsom_Derby) and [St Leger](/source/St_Leger_Stakes).
==Career==
Marson was born to trainer "Old" Job Marson in [Malton](/source/Malton%2C_North_Yorkshire), [North Riding of Yorkshire](/source/North_Riding_of_Yorkshire) in 1817. His first win came at [Beverley](/source/Beverley_Racecourse) in 1831, on a horse called Cinderella, and in his early years, he was much championed by fellow jockey [Sim Templeman](/source/Sim_Templeman), getting many rides on his recommendation.{{sfn|Mortimer|Onslow|Willett|1978|p=374}} His first big win came much later, in the 1841 [Goodwood Cup](/source/Goodwood_Cup), riding [Charles XII](/source/Charles_XII_(horse)), but then followed a period of extended success at the top level. Within another two years he had won his first classic - the 1843 [St. Leger](/source/St._Leger) on [Nutwith](/source/Nutwith_(horse)).
In 1847, he rode [Van Tromp](/source/Van_Tromp_(horse)) for [Lord Eglinton](/source/Archibald_Montgomerie%2C_13th_Earl_of_Eglinton) in the Derby, coming third. Later that year, he went on to take the St. Leger on the horse. Rather than securing his position in Eglinton's favour, it had the opposite effect. Now suspecting that Marson had pulled Van Tromp in the Derby, Eglinton sacked him.{{sfn|Mortimer|Onslow|Willett|1978|p=374}} Even [Charles Marlow](/source/Charles_Marlow_(jockey)), Marson's successor as Eglinton's stable jockey, believed Marson to be innocent.{{sfn|Mortimer|Onslow|Willett|1978|p=374}}
The setback did not mar Marson's career too much. [Lord Zetland](/source/Thomas_Dundas%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Zetland) took him on, and it was for Zetland that Marson would ride one of the supreme champion horses of the 19th century, [Voltigeur](/source/Voltigeur_(horse)), who won both Derby and St. Leger in 1850.
For [Sir Joseph Hawley](/source/Sir_Joseph_Henry_Hawley%2C_3rd_Baronet), Marson won the 1851 [1,000 Guineas](/source/1%2C000_Guineas) on [Aphrodite](/source/Aphrodite_(horse)) and the Derby on [Teddington](/source/Teddington_(horse)), receiving £2,000 in reward.
His last major win again came for Zetland in the 1856 [Doncaster Cup](/source/Doncaster_Cup) on [Fandango](/source/Fandango_(horse)).
==Character and riding style==
Marson rode at a weight of eight [stone](/source/stone_(unit)). He was a strong jockey, but was hard on his horses, using his spurs liberally.{{sfn|Mortimer|Onslow|Willett|1978|p=374}} When riding, he sat bolt upright, in an inelegant style.{{sfn|Mortimer|Onslow|Willett|1978|p=374}} As a jockey on the northern circuit, Marson had a loathing of Southern jockeys in general and, in particular [Nat Flatman](/source/Nat_Flatman),{{sfn|Mortimer|Onslow|Willett|1978|p=374}} who ended up riding Voltigeur in his most famous [match](/source/The_Great_Match_(horse_race)) against [The Flying Dutchman](/source/The_Flying_Dutchman_(horse)).{{sfn|Tanner|Cranham|1992|p=55}}
==Personal life and death==
Marson's son (another Job) also became a jockey, although he died at [Thirsk](/source/Thirsk) aged only 24 in 1869. Marson himself died at [Middleham](/source/Middleham), [North Riding of Yorkshire](/source/North_Riding_of_Yorkshire) on 11 September 1857. He is buried at Spennithorne nearby. His father outlived both son and grandson, dying in May 1872, aged 82.[
==Major wins==
{{flagicon|Great Britain}} '''[Great Britain](/source/Great_Britain)'''
*[1,000 Guineas Stakes](/source/1%2C000_Guineas_Stakes) - ''[Aphrodite](/source/Aphrodite_(horse)) (1851)''
*[Ascot Gold Cup](/source/Ascot_Gold_Cup) - (2) - ''[Woolwich](/source/Woolwich_(horse)) (1851)'', ''[Teddington](/source/Teddington_(horse)) (1853)''
*[Epsom Derby](/source/Epsom_Derby) - (2) - ''[Voltigeur](/source/Voltigeur_(horse)) (1850)'', ''[Teddington](/source/Teddington_(horse)) (1851)''
*[St Leger](/source/St_Leger_Stakes) - (3) - ''[Nutwith](/source/Nutwith_(horse)) (1843)'', ''[Van Tromp](/source/Van_Tromp_(horse)) (1847)'', ''[Voltigeur](/source/Voltigeur_(horse)) (1850)''
==References==
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{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/jockeypedia/marson-job |title=''q.v.'' Marson, Job, Jnr. |publisher=Jockeypedia |access-date=20 September 2015}}
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book
|title=Biographical Encyclopaedia of British flat Racing
|last1=Mortimer |first1=Roger
|last2=Onslow |first2=Richard
|last3=Willett |first3=Peter
|year=1978
|publisher=Macdonald and Jane's
|location=[London](/source/London)
|isbn=0-354-08536-0
| ol=4481332M
|lccn=79309727
|oclc=5405594
}}
*{{cite book
|title=Great Jockeys of the Flat
|last1=Tanner |first1=Michael
|last2=Cranham |first2=Gerry
|year=1992
|publisher=Guinness Publishing
|location=[Enfield](/source/London_Borough_of_Enfield), [Middlesex](/source/Middlesex)
|isbn=0-85112-989-7
|ol=8266712M
}}
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Category:1817 births
Category:1857 deaths
Category:English jockeys
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