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upon the Turf, to which he does not seem to have 

 taken until he was at least forty years of age. He is 

 generally supposed to have been ruined by his late- 

 developed * horseyness,' and he has been regarded as 

 one of the * victims ' of ' Old Q.' ; but we have seen 

 already that he himself bore witness to the perfect 

 honour, though undoubted superiority as a 'jockey,' 

 of his friend ' Queensberry.' Mr. Jennings was known 

 as ' Dog ' Jennings, a name which he did not at all 

 like ; as ' Alcibiades ' Jennings, a name which was very 

 agreeable to him ; and as ' Chillaby ' Jennings, a name 

 which, recalling the failure of his pet * Arab,' called 

 Chillaby, cannot have been so much to his taste. He 

 was a celebrated ' virtuoso,' and two of his names he 

 owed to an achievement of his in that capacity, when 

 he purchased a tailless dog (in marble or stone of 

 some kind), which was considered by high authorities 

 to be a veritable genuine effigy of the historical ' Dog 

 of Alcibiades,' and which, because it was so considered, 

 fetched as much as a thousand guineas, in 1778, at 

 one of the many sales forced upon poor Mr. Jennings, 

 not less, perhaps, from his recklessness as a ' virtuoso ' 

 than from his inexperience as a horse-racer and 

 'jockey/ His third nickname he owed to his unfor- 

 tunate belief in a reputed ' Arabian ' purchased by 

 him and called Chillaby (perhaps after King William 

 the Third's white Barb, Chillaby), but commonly 

 known as ' The mad Arabian.' For this animal 

 Mr. Jennings took some eighty acres of ground in 



