88 THE BLUE RIBBON OF THE TURF. 



world as being very large amounts to pay i'or what 

 appears a momentary service. But a cliiet' jockey 

 may say, as Sir Gilbert Scott, the eminent architect, 

 once said to a high dignitary of the Church who had 

 employed him to renovate a cathedral, and then 

 grumbled at the amount of his account, ' My lord, I 

 am a Bishop in my profession.' When a horse named 

 Petrarch, quite contrary to general expectation, which 

 was all the other way, won the Two Thousand Guineas 

 Stakes, the jockey, a stable-lad at the time, who rode 

 that horse, received from an anonymous donor a sum 

 of £500 ; it was from a person, very likely, who had at 

 an early period backed the horse to win a big stake, 

 and in the circumstances was so thankful to win his 

 money that he evinced his gratitude in the way 

 mentioned. 



It should be explained that the sums which jockeys 

 are often said to be presented with on occasions of 

 winning a big race are easily enough j)rovided by the 

 owner of the horse backing it with a bookmaker for 

 the amount to be given to the rider. In cases where 

 the owner is not a betting man, then he pays the money 

 out of the stakes which are won. Wells, the jockey 

 who rode Blue Gown to victory in the Derby, was 

 presented by his master with the stakes won on the 

 occasion, amountinfj to a sum of over £6,000. When 

 Teddington won, the same gentleman, it is said, gave 

 the rider a cheque for £1,000. 



The official charge for fees being known, it is open 

 to any public writer to calculate the sum represented 

 by the number of a jockey's mounts, and to give his 

 readers the benefit of the figures. As regards presents 



