242 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



discipline is not quite so severe as it was In 

 former reigns : 



' Qui cupit optatam cursu contendere metam, 

 Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.' 



And not ovAy ptier, hut j'ttvatis, and even senex, 

 when weight increases and Is more and more diffi- 

 cult to ' get off.' 



The most noted jockeys, besides those already- 

 mentioned, who have been constrained by death 

 or by some other cause to give up the wearing of 

 racing colours, are the following : Tom Aldcroft, 

 who died May 4, 1883, and had won the Two 

 Thousand on Lord of the Isles, when he smashed 

 his whip in the effort, and on General Peel, the 

 One Thousand on Sagltta, the Derby on Ellington, 

 the Oaks on Oueen Bertha, and the St. Lep-er on 

 Gamester. Ashmall, who won the Two Thousand 

 on The Wizard and The Marquis, the One 

 Thousand on Governess and Hurricane, the 

 Derby never, the Oaks on Governess, and the 

 St. Leger never. T. Chaloner, who won the 

 Two Thousand on Macaroni, Moslem (a dead 

 heat with Formosa), and Gang Forward, the One 

 Thousand never, the Derby on Macaroni, the Oaks 

 on Feu de Joie, and the memorable St. Leger on 



