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the victor is well trained, but that he was well ridden. 

 You hear the jockey praised on every side. The 

 trainer is not even handed down in the chronicles 

 of " Weatherby," since in no page of that most 

 useful and interesting history is the name of a single 

 member of his order once mentioned. 



1 By-the-bye, I recall a circumstance which may 

 perhaps be referred to here in reference to the 

 practice of jockeys engaging themselves to other 

 owners, without the knowledge or consent of their 

 11 first master." Wells was the jockey, and his 

 master Sir Joseph Hawley. Other days other 

 fees. The sum paid by Sir Joseph to his jockey, 

 as a retainer, was nothing like the salary of a 

 Cabinet Minister. In fact, it amounted to the 

 enormous sum of one hundred pounds per annum. 

 Wells had, entirely on his own responsibility, 

 engaged himself to pilot Queen Bertha in the St. 

 Leger. His name had been paragraphed in the 

 sporting journals as the chosen jockey and 

 announced in the list of probable starters. Sir 

 Joseph Hawley had, however, not been consulted, 

 and he was not at all the sort of person to suffer 

 such a breach of etiquette to pass unrebuked. I 

 received a letter from Sir Joseph in which he re- 

 ferred to the matter and, at the same time, in- 

 structed me to take Woldga, who was engaged in 

 the Leger, to Doncaster. On my arrival there 

 Wells came to me at once, as was his usual 

 practice, and asked what horses I had brought 

 for him to ride. I mentioned several, and then 



