4 i S CAMBRIDGESHIRE TRIALS. 



former won the Derby on Cremorne, and again on 

 Kisber, besides the Ascot Cup, the Oaks, One 

 Thousand, and many other good races ; and J. 

 Parsons won the Derby on anything but a first- 

 class horse, Caractacus, having ridden in public 

 a few times before, beating The Marquis with Ashmall 

 up, and thirty-two other jockeys, the most fashionable 

 of the day, on many good horses. If crack jockeys are. 

 as is supposed, so infinitely superior to stable-boys, 

 why on these occasions, and many others, did they 

 not show it by winning ? or wherein consists their 

 overwhelming talent ? Some of the closest and best 

 ridden races that I remember to have seen, have been 

 ridden by stable-boys. S. Adams, for instance, Avon 

 the Cambridgeshire by a head on Catch 'em Alive, 

 beating thirty-nine others ; and again won it on 

 Lozenge, after running a dead-heat with Wolsey. He 

 also won the Metropolitan on Joco by a head, when 

 the next three were so close together that the judge 

 could not separate them. Did not J. Adams ride 

 Elcho also in the Metropolitan with the consummate 

 skill of an artist when he defeated Caractacus by a 

 head, and Asteroid a neck, ridden by that accom- 

 plished jockey, Wells, then in his prime ? Or who 

 ever rode a better race than he did on Weatherbound 

 for the Cambridgeshire, when in the last stride he 

 won by a head ? I have seen many other stable- 

 boys ride equally well, and could refer to hundreds of 

 such instances ; but shall only allude to one more in 



