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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Derby winner " ; but in days when the old ambition to produce a stayer and a 

 weight-carrier has long ago been given up, the question of weights has really 

 more to do with the jockey than the horse. John Porter, giving his memories 

 of Kingsclere training in 1896, is evidently of the opinion that raising the lowest 

 regulation weight from 431. to 6st. had deprived jockeys of any chance of getting 

 those valuable experiences as light boys which did so much to form their riding 

 later on. "To say," he continues, "that those 'infants' could not ride, is sheer 

 nonsense. ' Weatherby ' teems with abundant evidence to the contrary." It is 

 certainly true that in 1856 and thereabouts, when the weights were low, at the 

 end of the period I have discussed in previous pages, there were such jockeys to 



choose from as Alfred 

 Day, James Bartholo- 

 mew, Job Marson, Sam 

 Rogers, Nat Flatman, 

 J. Charlton, Tiny 

 Wells, John Osborne, 

 Chaloner, G. Fordham, 

 Custance, Goater, Snow- 

 den, Grimshaw, Bullock, 

 Loates, Cannon, and 

 several others. All 

 these were either riding 

 or just coming on. And 

 they followed men like 

 Bill Scott, Frank Butler, 



Robinson, Holmes, Darling, Shepherd, and the rest. In 1902 the first twenty 

 in the list of winning jockeys on the Flat at the end of their season were as 

 follows : 



u Fandango " by " Barnton " (1852), 



IN ORDER OF WINNING MOUNTS. 



Mounts. 



1. Lane, W. ... ... ... ... ... 807 



2. Halsey, W 665 



3. Maher, D. ... ... 451 



4. Martin, J. H. ... ... ... ... ... 529 



5. Dixon, T 352 ... 



6. Hardy, F. ... ... ... ... ... 578 ... ... 504 



7. Cannon, M. ... ... ... ... ... 396 ... ... 328 



Lost. 



55 



449 

 278 



Won. 

 170 



s 



1 06 



80 



74 

 68 



