SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



nothing. Take the case of Herbert Jones, who Is 

 attached to Egerton House. Here is a jockey who 

 can go to scale at about 7st. 4lb., and despite the 

 fact that he rode Diamond Jubilee to victory in the 

 Two Thousand Guineas, the Newmarket Stakes, the 

 Derby, the Eclipse Stakes, and the St. Leger — 

 through the confessed inability of either Watts or 

 M. Cannon to manage Persinmion's brother — he was 

 allowed to go through what should have been the 

 season of his life with only thirty-seven mounts, of 

 which he won on seven ! One would have thought, 

 and been pardoned for thinking, that with Royal 

 patronage of the extent indicated by the privileges 

 enjoyed by Jones more call would have been made on 

 his services. But the Turf world is full of contra- 

 dictions which pass the understanding of man. 



Recent legislation has held out some inducements 

 for the putting up of apprentices, but owners, against 

 their interests, are slow in response. They have 

 through their suplneness found themselves in the 

 past hampered by a Jockey Ring of extended 

 ramifications, and now they are thrown back on 

 Americans at, so to say, any price, their position 

 becoming desperate when these are unavailable or 

 they cannot do the weight. Perhaps, with this and 

 that jockey crossing the Channel, because things 

 here are not as they were, and no healthy influx of 



