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RHYMING PRESCRIPTION FOR A JOCKEY. — THE DUKE OF QUEENSBUKY's 



GENIUS AND SUCCESS ON THE TURF. — MR. FOX. — JOHN MEDLEY. LORD 



MANSFIELD AND COPPER-BOTTOM. — SUCCESSFUL MANCEUVRE AT GUILD- 

 FORD. — THE RACER OF FORMER TIMES. — IMPORTED HORSES. — TRAIN- 

 ING. — OLD RACERS, THEIR PERFORMANCES AND ANECDOTES. 



TO return to the Duke of Queensbury, whose head has been so 

 aptly put in requisition by the writer of the following ingenious rhym- 

 ing prescription, for the noble composition of a Jockey. 



** Take a pestle and mortar of moderate size, 

 " Into Queensbury's head put Bunbury's eyes ; 

 " Cut Dick Vernon's throat, and save all the blood, 

 ♦' To answer your purpose, there's none half so good ; 

 " Pound Clermont to dust, you'll find it expedient, 

 " The world cannot furnish a better ingredient. 

 " From Derby and Bedford take plenty of spirit, 

 " Successful or not they have always that merit — 

 " Tommy Panton's address, John Wasteil's advice, 

 " With a touch of Prometheus, 'tis done in a trice." 



Alas ] Dick Vernon's blood has lost that virtue which it possessed 

 through such a length of years. Clermont is pounded to dust ! The 

 •spirit of the princely Bedford has taken its flight to a superior course; 

 and Tommy Panton has retired to a country, where his finest address 

 will be of no avail, and where, we trust, he will no longer need it. 

 But we still possess Bunbury's eyes, his shrewdness, humanity, and 

 good-nature ; the patriotism, sportsman-like, and nationally-useful qua- 

 lities of Derbj^ and Bedford, and long may we possess them ! And John 

 Wasteil's advice, improving by age, is grown still mellower and better. 



His Grace of Queensbury seems to have inherited the inventive ge- 

 nius. 



