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of the first heat, as it were, won the second also, 

 but when races are run over again very often the 

 same horse does not finish first. 



The Editor asks me to say something about the 

 horses and jockeys of to-day and of a bygone 

 period, but I must beg to be excused this task, for 

 what I think is the sufficient reason that of horses 

 I am really no judge and of horsemanship a far 

 from confident one. I see, or imagine I see, when 

 jockeys are not riding very hard, but I imagine 

 that if tricks are played, if riders are not trying to 

 win, they do not wait till they are close home, 

 and, in fact, this is a subject that I think it would 

 be wisest not to discuss. Of the horses I do not 

 take special notice, my concern being with their 

 riders, to see in what order and at what intervals 

 the jackets pass my chair. I do not know one 

 horse from another, and could not name from its 

 appearance a single animal in training. 



The Jockey Club always have their own judge, 

 who receives a salary. The proprietors or clerks 

 of courses elsewhere ehgage their judge at a daily 

 fee — some half-score officials now hold licences 

 to act. Once engaged for a meeting the engage- 

 ment usually continues ; the judge looks in the 

 Calendar and notes that he is announced to act. 



At Newmarket, where there are several courses. 



