SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



In the Sixties the Stewards and the members of 

 the Jockey Club were more thin-skinned than their 

 successors of this day ; and for the most trivial 

 offence against their laws, or sometimes their 

 opinions of propriety, a man might find himself 

 "warned off." My old friend, "Mr. Rodney" of 

 Newmarket, has received many precious paper 

 documents of an alarming character for exercising 

 his vocation of ** horse- watcher," but not one ever 

 troubled his digestive organs, while when the late 

 Lord Calthorpe became more attentive than usual 

 "Mr. Rodney" consulted the late Lord Russell (when 

 Sir Charles) and discovered, by his acumen and 

 research, a spot on the Heath that was no more 

 under the control of the Jockey Club than are the 

 plains of Timbuctoo. One of the most curious 

 incidents, as showing the sensitiveness of the 

 members of the Jockey Club, occurred in 18G2, and 

 as the majority may find the tale a fresh one I 

 reproduce the items, taken from a 



" Report of the Principal Proceedings of the Jockey 

 Club during the year [1862], abridged from the Sheet 

 Calendar. 



" Lord Winchilsea having called the attention of 

 the meeting to a letter in the Morning Post of 

 October 20, signed ' Argus,' in which the Tarragona 

 case W£is prejudged in an offensive manner : 



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