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market. The revenue from this source alone has been 

 put down in the case of about half a dozen jockeys as 

 not being less than from four to six hundred per 

 annum. Then come the multitudinous presents made 

 to popular riders, about which the public are every 

 now and then being' told so much. Whenever a great 

 race is decided, a paragraph at once goes the round of 

 the press to tell all the world that ' the victorious 

 jockey was presented by the gratified owner with the 

 sum of one thousand pounds.' Such sums, indeed 

 much larger amounts, have more than once been paid 

 to successful jockeys, and lesser sums of a ' pony ' or a 

 ' century ' are frequently given to clever horsemen for 

 their services. Suppose that a chief jockey is free to 

 take a mount in a handicap of importance — in other 

 words, that none of his masters have a horse com- 

 peting, and that his services are being asked for by 

 joerhaps three persons each having a horse in the 

 race ; the result most likely will be that one of them 

 will ask him to name his own terms, the authorized 

 fee in such cases counting for nothings and so it may 

 come that the jockey will get tv/o hundred guineas 

 w'in or lose, and be ' put on ' five hundred or even a 

 thousand to nothing on his mount. Archer, for in- 

 stance, Avlien he rode Rusebery in the Cesarewitch, 

 received a sum of one thousand pounds from the 

 gentleman who ' engineered ' that memorable victory. 

 For winning the sensational Derby of 1880, when 

 Bend Or only boat Robert the Devil by, as the saying 

 goes, ' the skin of his teeth,' the Duke of Westminster 

 presented the rider with a checpie for £500. These 

 sums will doubtless be looked upon by the outside 



