DERBY AND OTHER JOCKEYS. 



I. 



The chief joclvcys of the period are the fortunate 

 follows of their day and generation ; they have had few 

 of those hardships to endure which frequently formed 

 the lot of their predecessors, and they obtain much 

 greater rewards. Performing ihcir work in piesence 

 of a vast concourse of spectators, their triumphs in 

 the saddle are described to thousands in place of the 

 tens who became familiar with the achievements of 

 the old masters. Railways and newspapers have done 

 this. Daily trains bear to the appointed places of 

 sport thousands for the tens who, sixty years since, 

 used to be present at a race-meeting, whilst the daily 

 press recounts the prowess of successful riders. A lad 

 who wins the Derby becomes for the moment a pcr- 

 sdnacje of even more note than the statesman who 

 expounds a Budget. Tommy Loates to day is even 

 more in the public eye than Mr. Gladstone. Tommy 

 has taken the lead in his business. Whether it be the 

 good horses that make the good jockeys, or the good 

 jockeys that make the good horses, or whether it be in 

 some degree a mixture of both, need not at present bo 

 argued ; the fact remains that a man may attain such 

 pre-eminence on the turf as to gain for him an incomo 



