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Mounts. Wins. Proportion. 1887. C. Wood . 510 151 nearly 2 in 7 J. Watts • 451 no n i in 4 T. Cannon • • 238 57 i in 4 1888. T. Cannon • • 193 53 » 3 in ii I will go on to i 892 when the last-named jockey’s son Mornington was making his name:, and here we find

Μ. Cannon • 729 . 182 i in 4 J. Watts • 429 . 106 i in 4 1893. T. Loates • 857 . 222 better than i in 4

Μ. Cannon . 666 168 » j i in 4 J. Watts • 329 92 I in 4 I am always afraid of becoming tedious when I go into figures and will pause here, for these, taken more or less at random, show that the first jockeys won more races years ago than their successors do to-day. One last glimpse at 1878. Here Archer won 229 in 619, about four in eleven, and George Fordham 58 in 247, very nearly one in four.

As a rule the good racehorse has a very good time on the Turf and the bad racehorse a very bad one. Thus Isinglass, who won £37,453, only carried silk on twelve occasions during his four years in training. (,£40,096) was out only eleven times, (£34,706) ran nine races, St. Frusquin (£32,960) eleven, (£38,515) the same number, while (£39,185) and (£37,019) just got into their ‘teens’—thirteen each, and (¿28,265), (£35,915), Velasquez (£36,385) all ran in sixteen races, and Orme (£34,626) in eighteen. Compare these with the work of the slaves. In the 1902 Spring Edition of Ruff’s Guide it is recorded that Tyro ran in twenty-four races, Ormeau and Seaside in twenty- five, Valhalla in twenty-six, Orsay in twenty-eight, and Livorno went to the post thirty-one times, almost thrice as many in one season (and a bit of another) as Isinglass throughout the four seasons over which his career extended. It is not only the running, moreover, that takes it out of the Livornos and Valhallas, but the constant travelling to and fro and the being away from home. Finally, the Isinglass has a home of his own, a luxurious life with every care and attention that can be imagined, and the slave, when he cannot be flogged to the