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Goodwood, or screwing in Vivandiere half a head in 

 front of " Frank" on Iris ; Frank Butler biding his time 

 with Daniel O'Rourke in the Derby, or bringing up 

 Ninnyhammer in the last few strides at Ascot ; Nat 

 just getting up on Typee at Nottingham, and Meaux 

 at York ; Bartholomew, when he was quite a lad, 

 riding a long rally home against Sam Day for the Port 

 on Jericho, or getting Porto Rico through for the 

 Prendergast ; Marlow winning the Suburban on 

 Elthiron, and the Port on Knight of Avenel, within 

 a week of each other; and Job Marson squeezing 

 Voltigeur's last effort out of him for tne Spring 

 Handicap at York, or taking the rails from Ellington 

 (Aldcroft), and all but napping him (as he did 

 Nat with Sir Rowland Trenchard) by a flash of 

 lightning rush on the post ; — are some of the finest 

 " bits" we remember to have seen among the senior 

 jockeys. 



Trial riding is very lucrative, especially at New- 

 market, and at Middleham too, when Lord Glasgow 

 goes over to have a taste of his whole stud. Many 

 first-rate jockeys have not the art of "tasting" a horse 

 in private ; but, although Bill Scott could be hardly 

 called a first-class jockey for ten or twelve years before 

 his death, he was always A i as a tryer, and Frank 

 Butler was nearly as good. Jockeys who have salaries 

 ride trials gratis for those particular masters, but are 

 generally put on at 25/. or 50/. to o if it is a great race. 

 The different phases of the art, such as cutting down 

 the field from end to end, or getting in front to stop 

 the pace ; making the running up to a certain point, 

 and then letting yourself be headed and coming again ; 

 lying away from your horses if you are on one which 

 cannot be hurried, and creeping up inch by inch to 

 them before the pace becomes too great ; — all require 

 an intuitive knowledge of pace, which not one jockey 

 in thirty thoroughly attains to. The great test of a 

 jockey's nerve is his coolness when he finds himself 



