| Show VEER GIFTS TO JOCKEys I no of the greatest of living jock has a most remarkable collection Unites from admirers unknown otherwise It contains among q her strange things pawn tickets Wls and summonses contributed by uccessful backers of his mounts swans of all kinds to bring him pk In his races sermons and tracts his spiritual welfare recipes for kinds of ailments from coughs to tendency to corpulence forms for In U1lng against accidents offers of Ijirrlago accompanied by bundles of II > otographs of wouldbo wives welsh lire tickets and a pair of wornout ois with tho legend All that is It of them after walking from t > rk to London backed all your unts few years ago after his horse had ft an Important race a wellknown rfman went up to the jockey and Jdo him a formal and public pres onIon t on-Ion of a silver snuffbox saying t It if he wouldlook insldo ho would iwMO the kind of horse he ought to ride If I future Tho Jockey opened tho box and found In It half a dozen fat snails It was the same satirical owner own-er who on another occasion presented his Jockey with a sumptuous casket which on being opened disclosed a wooden spoon and to a third Jockey who had failed to win an important race ho handed a pair of crutches bought from a beggar on the course When John Singleton a clover Jockey Jock-ey of nearly two centuries ago first won a race In Yorkshire the farmer whose horso he had ridden to victory was so delighted with his achievement that he made him a present of n ewe whose offspring soon mustered around a-round dozen and really started the ex shepherd lad on his career as a jockey jock-ey Singleton was very proud of and < J grateful for his singular fee In this respect he furnished a great contrast to a wellknown Jockey who when a check for 1500 was handed to him by the owner of a horse on which he had won a race crumpled It up contemptuously with the remark that he had often received more for riding a 2yearold |
