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on Jericho, or getting Porto Kico through for the 

 Prendergast ; Marlow winning the Suburban on 

 Elthiron, and the Port on Knight of Avenel, within 

 a week of each other ; and Job Marson squeezing 

 Voltigeur's last effort out of him for the Spring 

 Handicap at York, or taking the rails from Elling- 

 ton (Aldcroft), and all but napping him (as he did Nat 

 with Sir Rowland Trenchard) by a flash of light- 

 ning rush on the post ; are some of the finest mod- 

 ern " bits " we remember to have seen among the 

 senior jockeys. 



Trial riding is very lucrative, especially at New- 

 market, and at Middleham too, when Lord Glasgow 

 goes over to have a taste of his whole stud. Many 

 first-rate jockeys have not the art of "tasting" a 

 horse in private ; but, although Bill Scott could be 

 hardly called a first-class jockey for ten or twelve 

 years before his death, he was always A 1 as a tryer, 

 and Frank Butler was nearly as good. Jockeys who 

 have salaries ride trials gratis for those particular 

 masters, but are generally put on at 25 or 50 to 

 if it is a great race. The talent for giving the points 

 of a race to reporters varies very much, and few, if 

 any, excel young Osborne in this respect. The dif- 

 ferent phases of the art, such as cutting down the 

 field from end to end, or getting in front to stop the 

 pace ; making the running up to a certain point, and 

 then letting yourself be headed and coming again; ly- 

 ing away from your horses if you are on one which 

 cannot be hurried, and creeping up inch by inch to 

 them before the pace becomes too great ; all require 

 an intuitive knowledge of pace, which not one jockey 

 in thirty thoroughly attains to. The great test of a 

 jockey's nerve is his coolness when he finds himself 

 among the leaders for the Derby, about two distances 

 from home. If they have an ounce of flurry in their 

 composition, that moment will bring it out ; and we 

 could not help, in the course of the last few years, as 



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