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Jockey Club, with its ample means, have two meetingfl a year, instead 

 of one ? We answer, that although this may occasionally be talked of 

 OMif q/"(ioor.9, it has never found favor with the members. They have 

 invariably set their faces against it, with great wisdom, feeling the force 

 of the reasoning of Juvenal : 



" Voluptates commendat rarior usus." 



Our pleasures have a higher relish when they are rarely used. The 

 keenest sense of delight is sure to be blunted by a too frequent 

 repetition. 



A Jockey Club dinner on Wednesday, and a Jockey Club ball on 

 Friday, are annually given in the race week from the funds of the Club. 

 The dinner is always an aflfair of great enjoyment, got up imder the 

 direction of those of the Stewards who, from their own love of the good 

 things of this life, know exactly how to provide for the taste of others. 



From time immemorial, amid the general hum of mirth and conver- 

 sation that ensues, after the cloth is removed, at a given signal, with 

 one consent, every body, however vociferous a few moments before, is 

 hushed into a profound silence. The President, then, takes the leady 

 "Tind keeps it, with " The High-Mettled Racer ;" when no sooner is the 

 last note of this admirable song breathed, than a most unanimous ham- 

 merino- of the tables, and rattling of the glasses, proclaim its termination, 

 and attest more plainly than words can express the cordiality with 

 which it has been listened to. From the enthusiasm with which this 

 performance is received at every returning anniversary, we believe, in 

 all time to come, no gentleman will be deemed fully qualified to fill the 

 chair, who is not able to sing this highly popular song. To this suc- 

 ceeds, like a succession of lightning flashes, a vividness of conviviality, 

 among the many merry fellows, who are the life and soul of the Club, 

 keeping up till a late hour, the harmony of " the merrie meeting," prov- 

 ing that when to ease and cheerfulness there is superadded the highest 

 zest of gay wit, lively fancy, refined humor, nothing can be wanting to 

 the perfection of the social pleasures of life. 



There is no better way of heightening the general happiness of a 

 large party than by a good song. This, from time immemorial, has 

 been a prevailing opinion. The Grecians carried this conviction so far 

 as to have had songs appropriate, not only to social gatherings, but to 

 the various trades. It has been with much truth said, " that the charac- 

 ter of a people is long preserved in their songs." 



It is not to be doubted that the animating efi'ect of the annual post- 

 prandial repetition of the air of " The High-Mettled Racer," will greatly 



