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the machinery in motion, my utmost hope will have 

 been realised. The gist, therefore, of what I have 

 written I conceive amounts to this — that races to be 

 ridden by gentlemen are quite proper in their proper 

 place; races to be ridden by any one but a profes- 

 sional jock, equally useful and proper in theirs; and 

 of course (so long as sporting exists) races to be 

 ridden by professional jocks quite necessary to the 

 sporting world: but for the sake of that sporting 

 world, let these several races be defined. If 1 have 

 not shown that they may be so defined, my time has 

 been thrown away, and the patience of my reader 

 taxed to no purpose. I have pointed out what I con- 

 ceive to be injudicious (it requires no great ability to 

 do this) : let me hope an abler pen will have influence 

 enough to produce a remedy. I point out the disease, 

 suggest to the best of my abilities what I consider an 

 anod}'ne, but I submit to the physician : if he pre- 

 scribes well, few of his brethren will better merit their 

 guinea. 



We now come to that most strange, most monstrous 

 anomaly, the gentleman's gentleman, a kind of gen- 

 tleman I should never have mentioned but from the 

 fear, that, unless some check-rein is put on them, they 

 will not be confined to the dressing-room, but we shall 

 be getting a spurious sort of them in our stables. We 

 shall have riding boys wanting Mareschino before they 

 go out to early exercise if the morning happens to be 

 cold ; and a Whip sporting his best Havanna and flask 

 of Curacoa by the covert side : so we shall then have 

 gentlemen-y^hY^s : a pretty mess we shall then be in. 

 Let us have gentlemen, jockeys, and servants ; but for 

 God's sake no gentlemen -jocks or gentlemen's-gentle- 

 men. The term certainly never was applied to ser- 



