CHAPTER VIII 



SECOND IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND 



Of&cials' Kindness — Liverpool Jumping Course — Never a Drink while 

 racing — Laid out at Kempton — My Opinion of Democrat, and — 

 Lord William's 



I HAVE often been asked for some of my other impres- 

 sions on my first start in England in 1897. I certainly 

 noticed the jockeys were very nicely treated, and one 

 thing I had never seen in America were the luncheon 

 tickets which were given to us. The officials were 

 pleasant too. Mr Joseph Davis of Hurst Park, Mr 

 Manning, the Clerk of the Scales, and Mr Arthur 

 Coventry and several others were particularly kind 

 to me. There was a time in America when they tried 

 to treat jockeys like a lot of monkeys. I remember 

 one man over there who was promoted from one job 

 to another until he became a sort of superintendent of 

 the paddock — Paddock Judge they called him. This 

 man was always suggesting to the Stewards something 

 new which would in his opinion prevent this, that 

 and the other "abuse " and keep the Turf with regard 

 to jockeys " clean." One day, as the result of his 

 suggestions, an order came that all the boys had to be 

 in the jockeys' room at one o'clock and that they were 

 not to leave it until it was time to go to the post, and 

 that they had to come right back after the race until 

 it was their turn to ride again. In fact they were 

 to be caged up like a lot of monkeys. I wouldn't 

 stand for it. I said I wouldn't ride if I had to. The 



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