i66 JOCKEYS. 



for the first and only present I ever received, was £$ for 

 winning on Bracelet at Newmarket, although I rode the winner 

 of the Ascot Cup, and of very many other weight-for-age 

 races, and handicaps, on Chapeau d'Espagne, Ratsbane, Airy^ 

 and others. But I should add that Mr. C. C. Greville very 

 generously gave me fifty pounds for riding The Driuiimer in 

 the trial with Mango, after the latter had won the St. Leger. 



A present once made me for riding a trial deserves to be 

 mentioned, more for the nice manner in which it was given 

 than for the value of it. It was at Welbeck Abbey, where 

 with my father and Mr. Flatman I had gone to ride a trial for 

 the late Duke of Portland,^ who requested all his servants to 

 attend in the park to see it, his grace being judge. When 

 everything was ready we started, all " sporting colours," 

 as if it were for a race, and when over we partook of some 

 refreshment, during which time his grace sent a letter and 

 enclosed each of us a £^ note, whilst to me he said " he 

 was satisfied with the way I had ridden, and he hoped I 

 should make. even a better man than my father." 



If we come to compare the work done in old days by jockeys 

 with what is done to-day, we shall find as great extremes ; and 

 it may be added, parenthetically, in the work done by stable- 

 boys as well. It was once no uncommon sight at Newmarket 

 to see, daily, ten or a dozen wasting jockeys returning from an 

 eight-mile walk, thoroughly exhausted. Now such a thing is 

 scarcely known, and never done, except with a few of our 

 oldest men. Jockeys then were seen riding over Newmarket 

 Heath, with a light saddle tied round their waist, in their 

 boots and breeches, and carrying their own saddles to the 

 scales, and saddling their own horses. Now most of them ride 

 in carriages to the course dressed as gentlemen in the very 



1 Written in 1878. 



