BRITISH TURF. 583 



Having enumerated the personal qualifications 

 necessary to form a good jockey, we will now 



ing patrons of the turf be secured, — in obtaining which, we cannot 

 imagine that there would be much difficulty, — it would, no doubt, be 

 successful ; and in the hopes that this may soon take place, we give 

 below a copy of the prospectus issued on the occasion alluded to, 

 and which may prove useful in case of such an event. 



THE TURF BENEVOLENT FUND. 



" To be instituted for the rehef of decrepid or maimed jockies, and 

 their widows and infant families, and of those reduced to poverty, 

 whose characters are unblemished. 



" The lives of jockies are extremely arduous, and much bodily 

 suffering has to be sustained, which occasionally leads to incurable 

 disease, or premature old age and death, Jockies, also, frequently 

 meet with accidents, which sometimes maim them for life, or unfit 

 them for their vocation for a long period, and sometimes terminate 

 fatally. They are likewise liable to vicissitudes of fortune ; and when 

 poverty surrounds them, while their integrity is unblemished, they 

 are objects of pity, and deserve assistance. 



" If an institution can be formed, which, while it provides the 

 means of support to decayed, decrepid, or maimed jockies, and to 

 their widows and families when left destitute, shall, at the same time, 

 tend to raise the moral character of the jockey, such an institution 

 would, it is conceived, confer important benefit on the turf, and be 

 supported by the humane. If there be a power, also, vested in the 

 managers of the institution to apply a certain sum, annually, in re- 

 warding good conduct or skill in jockies, an additional incentive will 

 be given to them to exert all their energies in sustaining a high repu- 

 tation. 



" It is, therefore, proposed that an institution shall be formed, to 

 be called " The Turf Benevolent Fund," to be supported by volun- 

 tary contributions, and by a tax levied, by common consent, on all 

 stakes gained, and by an assessment on every jockey winning a race, 

 as hereafter described. 



" The fund so collected, to be applied by a committee of manage- 



