58 Saddle and Sirloin. 



saddle, and was beaten half a length. His feet 

 slipped through the stirrups, and he couldn't finish 

 on her. 



The Swifts are full of curious Turf recollections. 

 The jockeys seemed much taller men then, and 

 "wasted" to thread-paper. As for Jem Jacques,* he 

 was promptly "transmuted" from a well-fed innkeeper 

 at Penrith into a seven-stone skeleton, when poverty 

 overtook him, and he rode successfully for Colonel 

 Cradock again. Vinegar and poached eggs were his 

 only support at times, and a lad who rode the rear 

 horse, and drove the leader in the canal-boat, The 

 Arrow, from Carlisle to Port Carlisle, tried the same 

 fare rather than lose his place for overweight, and 

 killed himself by it. John Cartwright was in immense 

 force when he came out about 1829 ; and Mr. Aglionby 

 engaged him three years in advance to ride a colt of 

 his Petterill, for a Cumberland Produce Stakes, which 

 he won. Juba made a memorable level-ground jump 

 near the last turn at exercise. It was measured to be 

 thirty feet ; and the lad vowed that his black would 

 have the Eden with a little more practice, and advised 

 his being turned loose in future. No two-year-old 

 ever excited such interest as General Chasse, when he 

 went to the post for the Corby Castle Stakes with his 

 trainer Fobert leading him, and Bob Johnson on his 

 back ; and he showed the field his light tail from the 

 start to the finish. Muley Moloch was a lion in those 

 days when the Raby pink and black stripes were 

 annually looked out for with Tommy Lye to ride, 

 and burly John Smith in charge. That " fine black 

 hunter" Inheritor, and " Lazy Lanercost," were both 

 winners ; and the wiry little Doctor galloped away 

 from his field in the Queen's Plate through water and 



* This old jockey became a jobbing gardener near Doncaster, and 

 had a small pension from the Bentinck Club. He died in 1868 from an 

 over-dose of laudanum. 



