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THE TURF. 
The heavy betting of jockeys is still more fatal to the 
best interests of the turf, and generally, we may add, to 
themselves. Why did the late king dismiss Robinson, 
the second best, if not, as in some people's opinions, the 
best in every one's opinion the most successful jockey 
in England ? Not because he had done wrong by the 
king's horses, but solely because his majesty heard he 
was worth a large sum of money. What did the great 
jockey of the north get by his heavy betting ? Money, 
no doubt ; but dismissal from the principal stud of the 
north. In fact, no gentleman can feel himself secure in 
the hands of either a trainer or a jockey who bets ; but 
of the two, the system may be most destructive with the 
jockey, as no one besides himself need be in the secret. 
If he bet against his horse, the event is of course under 
his control ; and such is the superiority of modern 
jockeyship, that a race can almost always be thrown 
away without detection. On the other hand, if he back 
his horse heavily to win, he becomes, from nervous 
trepidation, unfit to ride him, as has frequently been 
witnessed at Doncaster ; we need not mention names. 
The first admission we have on record of a jockey 
betting against himself, is in " Genius Genuine," page 
106, where the author, the late Samuel Chifiiey (1784), 
rides Lord Grosvenor's Fortitude, at York, against Faith 
and Recovery, backing Faith against Recovery, one win, 
or no bet, and Faith won. He adds, that he did not 
think he was acting improperly in making this bet, 
because, he says, he knew Fortitude was unfit to run. 
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