TRAINERS AND JOCKEYS. 47 



and the tipster- trade. Stakes are much larger than 

 they used to he, and so are jockey presents in propor- 

 tion. We once heard an old farmer pressing his "best 

 Alderney coo" on a jockey, who was obliged to de- 

 cline, on the ground that he had no paddock for her. 

 The winner of a recent Derby presented his jockey 

 with a cool thousand ; while " the double event" was 

 acknowledged by a thousand a-piece to jockey and 

 trainer, and 500 has been given for one handicap. 



Taking jockey ship as an art, it has not gone back, 

 and it would be strange if it had, seeing the immense 

 practice which boys get in handicaps all over the coun- 

 try. In fact many clever young jocks, like Basham, G. 

 Gates, Osborne, Charlton, Aldcroft, Ashmall, Wells, 

 Cliffe, Fordham, Mundy, Bullock, Challoner, &c., will 

 have ridden as many races by the time they are five- 

 and-twenty, as their less lucky coach-travelling pre- 

 decessors had done when they were five-and-thirty. 

 Mr. Waterton used to say that it was his practice with 

 the Badsworth, which gave him l< such a fine hand on 

 a crocodile;" and hence it is no wonder that strong 

 lads are soon qualified to ride anything, even if it 

 have the size of a dromedary, or the mouth of a zebra, 

 and finish with such brilliancy and precision. They 

 know their work so well, that whereas twenty years 

 ago, it was ten to one on the man if he was finishing 

 alongside a youngster, the former now finds it almost 

 impossible to come the old trick of gammoning 

 Young Artful that the race is over, and then when 

 he sees him beginning to take it easy, catching him 

 with a rush on the post. Lads, however promising, 

 were held quite cheap then by their seniors ; but in 

 the case of Sam Rogers, a regular row was raised after 

 one race at Newmarket, because some of his craft 

 had kindly sung out some directions to him. The 

 nicest ridden finish we ever remember was one be- 

 tween Old England ( J. Day, junior), Plaudit (Mar- 

 son), and Prologue (Robinson), over the Abingdon 



