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fully keeps your secrets, then a present, and a substantial 
one, would be but a well-deserved compliment, which it 
would be a meanness to withhold. 
But I have already avowed my appreciation of the services 
of an able jockey. It is to those who are better described as 
unformed riders than as jockeys, that I particularly refer. To 
such boys the gift of a small sum might not only be welcome, 
but amply sufficient to foster honesty and frugality. If this 
were to be the practice, we should see an end of the ruinous 
dissipation indulged in by these mites—the result of lavish 
gifts accepted without thanks. 
If we turn to days gone by, we shall find things very dif- 
ferent, and in their results very much more satisfactory. When 
boys as jockeys were neither wanted nor known, men used to 
look upon a five-pound note for services well and truly per- 
formed asan acceptable present. What would the jockeys of 
to-day think of a present offered to them like the following, 
and for similar services? After winning the Two Thousand, 
the’One Thousand, and the Newmarket Stakes for the Duke 
of Grafton, the jockey was requested to attend at the lodging 
of Lord G. Fitzroy (the duke’s brother) who wished to make 
hima present. His lordship, after descanting on the jockey’s 
virtues as a man and his ability as a jockey, finished a 
diatribe of about half-an-hour’s duration by taking from his 
writing-desk a purse, and saying, “In the Duke’s name, and 
for him, I present you with two new five-pound notes on the 
bank at Bury St. Edmunds, and beg you will take care of 
them.” ‘This was rather a different method of appreciating 
or rewarding talent to that customary now, and yet they had 
honest jockeys, and good ones too, in those days. 
Judging from my own experience, I do not think rich gifts 
were often presented to jockeys then or for some years after ; 
