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can point out that he has won for you the Derby 

 and the Oaks. It is beyond denial, however, that 

 Jackson had then the "pulse" of many of the 

 Northern riders, and it is beyond me to recall a 

 man who was so positioned to pull, and did pull, 

 the strings in favour of his pocket. The Turf has 

 known many " dangerous " men, but the equals of 

 Jackson and his confederates have yet to be born. 



Taking one thing with another the season of 1857 

 must be held to have been prolific in exciting 

 incidents. Thus in the Cesarewitch Mr. Ten, 

 Broeck's Prioress, Captain Smith's El Hakim, and 

 Mr. Saxon's Queen Bess ran a dead heat. The 

 American jockeys of that period were not as those 

 of to-day. One would have had to travel far and 

 look hard to find such specimens of all in horseman- 

 ship that was indifferent. They were, in truth, 

 about as bad as anybody could make them, they 

 riding, for instance, with the reins twisted round 

 their wrists ! Tankerley, the jockey on Prioress, 

 was of the Yankee school, and it was evident to me, 

 from my place on our coach, that he ought, at the 

 least, to have won by a couple of lengths. Taking 

 a flying leap from the vehicle, I called out to 

 "Tubby" Morris, "They must run off! Put me a 

 hundred on Prioress. And do the same for yourself. 

 I'll run and see Ten Broeck to put Fordham up." 



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