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certain modifications), as the master, to all intents 

 and purposes, of the training stable for which he 

 was nominally the titular jockey, and as being on 

 such terms with one member at least of the Jockey 

 Club, and with two born and bred gentlemen at 

 least, who were owners and runners of race-horses, 

 as could not fail to raise jockeys in their own, if 

 not in the general, estimation, and to tend towards 

 the exaltation of the fraternity. Add to this the 

 increase, the perfectly unauthorized increase, in 

 the scale of fees paid for riding even the paltriest 

 races, the retainers of from ^500 to ;^ 1,000 a 

 year, the presents which have risen in value from 

 ' two ten-pound -notes ' (as a rare piece of liberality) 

 to the ' whole Derby stakes ' (it has been not in- 

 disputably asserted), as an acknowledgment of a 

 very successful gambling venture (meaning an 

 equally heavy loss to somebody or somebodies 

 else, without any advantage to the community), 

 and a good idea will be gained of the golden pros- 

 pect opened to the successful jockey during the 

 present reign. But only to the successful jockey, 

 and of him it may be said still, though perhaps, 

 thanks to Turkish baths and other inventions, the 



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