ASSUMED NAMES; JOCKEYS AND 

 THEIR COMMISSIONERS; AND 

 OTHER MATTERS. 



Whether or not assumed names should be 

 permitted In racing has been more than once 

 submitted to the consideration of the Jockey 

 Club. Persons, it is said, who are ashamed to 

 run horses in their own name ought not to be 

 " on the turf." The admission of assumed names 

 is, however, a feature of turf economy which 

 carries its own condemnation, and need not be 

 wrangled over. In reality the bearers of such 

 names are known to their turf contemporaries, 

 and as assumed names do not save them from 

 being liable to the pains and penalties of wrong- 

 doing, should they do wrong, why they should 

 wear a mask is difficult to understand. 



Some little inquiry into this matter was at one 

 time made by the writer. 



"Why is it," he asked a famous racing critic, 

 "that Brown does not race under his own 

 name ? " 



" Oh, don't you know ? His father is old 

 Vellum, the dissenting bookseller of Ave Marie 



