THE FATE OF A CRACK JOCKEY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1227, 4 September 1885, Page 3

THE FATE OF A CRACK JOCKEY.

William "Newhouse, a few years ago a celebrate ! jockey,and one of the best known men on i be fa if, died last Thursday in St. Giles’s Workhouse, having literally worn nnt every friend on earth. Heavy betting brought Newhouse to grief. “ He was, ’ says Mr Corlett in the couise of an interesting memoir in the ‘Sporting Times,’ “decidedly the best light weight of his day, and possessed of the most unflinching c airage. Not even the most daring acts of horsemanship of Archer have eclips d the performances of Newhouse, ami wa have more particularly in our mind’s eye a race lie rode on The Shah nt Br ghton The horse had been ma le the medium of a desperate plunge, in which Newhouse was a sharer. In the race lie was apparently' hopelessly shut in until very near home, when it became a case of ‘ neck or nothing ’ with him. He determined on risking his neck, and, dashing in next the rails, where there was not nearly room, fairly pushed his opponent out of the way, and won by a head. The owner of the horse, when wo last saw him, was not in much better plight that his jiekov. The ruin of Newhouse was heavy hotting, and for this he neglected his riding. We have seen him perched in the most prominent part of the ring, openly betting in hundreds and monkeys, either on his own hm ses nr other people's. He t"ok part in that famous expedition Sir Goorgo Chetwynd fitted out for purpose of rooking

the Khedive, and anything more humorous was nov r told than his description of it, The most fa ry tales had been told of the enormout prizes that were given by the Khedive, an I of the large sums that he butted. A first class horse called Country, ■nan, who was top weight in the T.Y 0. handicaps, was sent out for ‘ leading business,’ and a cast-iron hurdle racer to do the ‘ walking gentleman.’ . Tom French, the oraok jockey of the day, who had j -ist ridden a Derny winner, was first jockey. So far from rooking the Khedive, it was the English party who were rooked, as Country, man, it is believed, was poisoned, and the height of aiaurdity was reached when Englan I’s great j ickey, who would have scorned to ride at a meeting in this c miitry not under Jockey Club rules, meekly got into the s nldle and won a trivial hurdle race, which was the only prizs the party did win. l lf we had won every race on the card,’ said Newhouse, ‘ they would not have amounted to more than we could have got in one so at Croydon.’ The first time we saw him ride was at Lewes, where he won on Ton'll and (Jo, when ho was so small that he had c> bo lifted into the scales, and carrying the big saddle was altogether out o f the question His weight at this time little more than three stone. It was not long before he took the lead amongst the light weights, but all this time he was treated merely as a stable boy, and every night lie hid to clean his horse, tor which purpose it was necessary for hum to stand on a bucket.”