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The heavy punishment in which Clift and some of 

 the old school delighted, is very much gone out, and 

 if a foolish lad punishes his beaten horse unnecessa- 

 rily, he is pretty certain to hear of it in the news- 

 papers. Salaries and expenses are a matter of private 

 arrangement between a jockey and his masters, the 

 former varying according to the reputation of the 

 receiver, and the order in which each claims him. 

 In other cases 3 for a mount and 5 for a win are 

 the regular fees, though the latter is always the com- 

 pliment for a mount in the St. Leger, Derby, and 

 Oaks, and ten guineas was the Liverpool steeple- 

 chase tariff, when that event was in its zenith. 

 Robinson had a 100 special retainer for the Hyllus 

 and Charles XII. 1,000 guinea a-side match, in 

 which, as well as that for the same amount between 

 Teddington and Mountain Deer, Job Marson's luck 

 was in the ascendant. He also generally received 100 

 when he went down special from Newmarket to ride 

 in any of the three great races, success in which 

 uusally ensures a 300 or 500 cheque from the owner, 

 besides presents from other winners varying in amount 

 from a 500 note to a box of cigars, or a Belcher- 

 tie. Jim can most truly say to himself, in General 

 Evans's version of the Crimean telegraph, " Remem- 

 ber Dowb," as Captain Dowbiggin sent him a 1,000 

 note in an envelope as he was sitting at tea at Mr 

 Herring's house in Doncaster, the evening he won the 

 St. Leger on Matilda. His host, to whose pencil the 

 turf owes so much, was then only in the dawn of his 

 splendid fame as a delineator of the horse, and had 

 not long quitted the coach-box for the studio. He 

 was, we believe, entirely self-taught, although he 

 may have occasionally watched Mr. Abraham Cooper 

 at work, in whose well-known battle-piece he is said to 

 figure as Saladin. Of late years he has rather faltered 

 in his allegiance to the Turf, and wrought with won- 

 derful art upon some Ironsides stabling their horses in 



