Gentlemen Riders 



it between them ; and The Pony performing his part of the 

 play in an equally satisfactory manner — result : " Happiness," 

 as Mr. Micawber would say. In one of his earlier steeple- 

 chases at a meeting in Gloucestershire Mr. Jenkins had a 

 funny experience. Finishing second, he objected to the winner 

 on the ground of foul riding. The stewards, however, either 

 could not, or would not decide, so requested the disputants to 

 " toss up," which they accordingly did, with the result that the 

 race went to the winner — or rather the horse that came in first. 



As an example of what an enthusiast will go through in 

 order to attain his object, Mr. Jenkins, in July, 1872, weighing 

 12 St. 7 lbs., actually rode Wamba, belonging to himself, in the 

 great Metropolitan Steeplechase at Croydon in the November 

 of that year in a 4-lb. saddle, going to scale at 10 st. 7 lbs., 

 which could have been 10 st. 5 lbs. had it been necessary. 



The race in question was won by Mr. Arthur Yates on 

 Harvester ; David Copperfield being second, Casse Tete — who 

 later on won the Grand National — third, and Wamba fourth. 



On his secession from the saddle, so far as riding in 

 public was concerned, Mr. Jenkins took to training horses for 

 himself and his friends by way of amusement ; Llantarnam, 

 Satellite, and Zoedone, and many other good winners being- 

 prepared for their engagements under his superintendence ; 

 whilst it is almost superfluous to add that hunting, of which 

 he had always been fond from his earliest childhood, occupied 

 a fair share of his attentions. In what is known as the 

 "Great Wood Run"* with the Duke of Beaufort's hounds, 



* In some lines commemorative of this celebrated run the following verse appears : — 



" So on they speed past Hannington, 

 So on past Crouch's Wood ; 

 One brook alone remained to jump ; 

 There vi^as but one * who could." 



* Mr. Jenkins on Giffard. 

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