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for the first and only present I ever received, was £5 for 
winning on Bracelet at Newinarket, although I rode the winners 
of the Ascot Cup, and of very many other weight-for-age 
races, and handicaps, on Chapeau d’ Espagne, Ratsbane, Airy, 
and others. But I should add that Mr. C. C. Greville very 
generously gave me fifty pounds for riding The Drummer in 
the trial with JZango, after the latter had won the St. Leger. 
A present once made me for riding a trial deserves to be 
mentioned, more for the nice manner in which it was given 
than for the value of it. It was at Welbeck Abbey, where 
with my father and Mr. Flatman I had gone to ride a trial for 
the late Duke of Portland,’ who requested all his servants to 
attend in the park to see it, his Grace being judge. When 
everything was ready we started, all “sporting colours,” 
as if it were for a race, and when over we partook of some 
refreshment, during which time'his Grace sent a letter and 
enclosed each of us a £5 note, whilst to me he said “he 
was satisfied with the way I had ridden, and he hoped I 
should make even a better man than my father.” 
If we come to compare the work done in old days by jockeys 
with what is done to-day, we shall find as great extremes; and 
it may be added, parenthetically, in the work done by stable- 
boys as well. It was once no uncommon sight at Newmarket 
to see, daily, ten or a dozen wasting jockeys returning from an 
eight-mile walk, thoroughly exhausted. Now such a thing is 
scarcely known, and never done, except with a few of our 
oldest men. Jockeys then were seen riding over Newmarket 
Heath, with a light saddle tied round their waist, in their. 
boots and breeches, and carrying their own saddles to the 
scales, and saddling their own horses. Now, most of them ride 
in carriages to the course dressed as gentlemen in the very 
1 Written in 1873. 
