Trainers and Jockeys. 39 



other winners varying in amount from a 5OO/. note to 

 a box of cigars, or a Belcher-tie. Jim can most truly 

 say to himself, in General Evans's version of the Cri- 

 mean telegraph, " Remember Doiub" as Captain Dow- 

 biggin sent him a iooo/. 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. Towards the close of his life he rather 

 faltered in his allegiance to the Turf, and wrought 

 with wonderful art upon some Ironsides stabling their 

 horses in a cathedral, and countless peaceful farm- 

 yard groups. 



Taking jockeyship 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 

 country. In fact, many clever young jocks will have 

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

 twenty, as their less lucky coach-travelling predeces- 

 sors had done when they were five-and-thirty. Mr. 

 Waterton used to say that it was his practice with the 

 Badsworth, which gave him " 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 along- 

 side a youngster, the former now finds it almost im- 

 possible 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 



