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of by their exercise boys, or spoken to by per- 

 sons on business, who may be employed in 

 bringing the necessary suppUes to a racing es- 

 tabHshment, addressed as Sirs. Indeed, so re- 

 spectable a man as Mr. Robinson, late trainer 

 at Newmarket, and many other trainers as well 

 as jockeys that we could name, may fairly be 

 entitled to those ceremonious distinctions of 

 etiquette from such persons as those above men- 

 tioned. 



There has of late years been a further change 

 in the style of addressing trainers and jockeys 

 by the noblemen and gentlemen of the turf them- 

 selves : in speaking to the trainers and jockeys 

 of their establishment, and in whom they re- 

 pose a familiar sort of confidence, they address 

 them by their surnames, instead of their Chris- 

 tian names; and, on some occasions, as that of 

 sending a verbal message by an exercise-boy, they 

 generally add the title of Misters. This change 

 of manners, now infused among the above class 

 of persons, adds to their respectability, and ap- 

 pears to us to be justly fair, at least, towards 

 those among them who have proved themselves 

 to be worthy of high trust; for in very high trust 



