366 A MIRROR OF THE TURF. 



By payment of a slight commission on such 

 transactions as take place, gentlemen are saved 

 the trouble which pertains to receiving stakes 

 they may win, or of paying personally such 

 entry- money and forfeits as may have been in- 

 curred in the races they have been entrusted by 

 clients to enter horses in. The gentlemen like- 

 wise keep a record of sportsmen who, for various 

 reasons, prefer to pursue their career on the turf 

 under an assumed name ; as also a register of the 

 racing liveries or " colours " selected by owners to 

 be worn by their jockeys, and of these about 

 nine hundred different arrangements are annually 

 chronicled. 



Among their other duties, Messrs. Weatherby 

 edit and print the Book and Sheet Calendars of 

 the Jockey Club, in which race meetings are 

 announced, entries of horses in various races 

 published, handicaps made public, and through 

 which the general business of racing is made 

 known to its votaries. Nominally the head- 

 quarters of the Club are at Newmarket, but it 

 may be assumed that the larger portion of the 

 business is transacted at the offices of Messrs. 

 Weatherby, in the great metropolis. 



The Jockey Club is, of course, best known 

 through its works and the laws laid down for 

 the government of the turf. The " Rules of 

 Racing " are entirely the work of the Club. For 

 the information of persons who have never been 

 behind the scenes, these rules may be here briefly 

 glanced at. They provide for all the contingencies 

 which may be expected to occur during the pro- 

 gress of sport ; these are so well provided for, 

 indeed, that if a jockey meet with an accident or 



