. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 282 ?kc %xz&fax mul gp&xtsnxmx* May 3 A Chat About British Jockeys. .'London Sportsman/ "The jockey of the period" is, without doubt, a prominent figure amidst the liviugunits that combine to form our social scale; his name is a household word, his movements, both in public and in private, are the theme of repeated conversations; it is the practice amongst turf habitues of all grades to speak of "Fred this or Tom that" with almost fraternal familiarity. A pigskin performer is looked upon de facto as public property, and when, having
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 282 ?kc %xz&fax mul gp&xtsnxmx* May 3 A Chat About British Jockeys. .'London Sportsman/ "The jockey of the period" is, without doubt, a prominent figure amidst the liviugunits that combine to form our social scale; his name is a household word, his movements, both in public and in private, are the theme of repeated conversations; it is the practice amongst turf habitues of all grades to speak of "Fred this or Tom that" with almost fraternal familiarity. A pigskin performer is looked upon de facto as public property, and when, having donned the silk or satin of some patrician pillar of the turf after a desperate finish, winning a classic race of renown, on returning to the paddock to weigh in, the victorious horseman is even a more popular but evanescent hero of the hour than an all-conquering general such as Lord Wolseley after his Egyptian campaign, or even the Premier himself when flushed with the excitement of a successful party division. The life of a jockey is very different to what it was wont to be when "the Chifneys" and "the Buckles" â were lions in the land. In those pristine days traveling was slow and arduous; a journey from north to south was essen- tially an undertaking, and races numerically had not assumed anything like the Brobdiguagian proportions that they have in the present year of grace, 1S83. Facilities of locomotion have nietamorpnosed a jockey's career; now it is by no means an exceptional case for men like Archer or Wood to ride va- rious trials on Newmarket Heath in the morning, proceed to Epsom or to Saudown, go through a heavy day's racing, and return at night to the metropolis of the turf to enjoy home comforts and the frugalit3'of living their vocation necessarily entails. Leaving the light-weights out of the question, inas- much as, as a'rule, they are boys, and have to learn the ex- perience of life, Osborne, Fordham, Goater, Archer, Can- non, Webb, Woo
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