| Show GIFTS TO jockeys one oi the greatest of living jock ays eys has a most remarkable collection of tributes from admirers unknown and otherwise it contains among other strange things pawn tickets writs and summonses contributed by unsuccessful backers of his mounts talismans of all kinds to bring him luck in his races sermons and tracts tor his spiritual welfare recipes for all kinds of ailments from coughs to a tendency to corpulence forms tor in bunns against accidents offers of marriage accompanied by bundles of photographs of would be wives welsh ers tickets and a pair of workout boots with the legend all that is left of them after walking from york to london backed all your mounts A few years ago after his horse had lost an important race a well known went up to the jockey and made him a formal and public presen tation of a silver snuffbox saying that if he would look inside he would see the kind of horse he ought to ride in future the ockey opened the box and found in it halt a dozen fat snails it was the same satirical 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 lockey who had failed to win an important race he handed a pair of crutches bought from a beggar on the course when john singleton a clever lock ey of nearly two centuries ago first won a race in yorkshire the farmer whose horse he had ridden to victory was so delighted with his achievement that he made him a present of a ewe whose offspring soon mustered a aund dozen and really started the ex shepherd lad on his career as a jock ey singleton was very proud of and grateful for his singular fee in this respect he furnished a great contrast to a well known jockey who when a check for 1 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 2 year old |
