Sufferings of Jockeys

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 24, 7 August 1886, Page 3

Sufferings of Jockeys

. There are people who imagine that a jockey's life is' a joyous life ; that «arth can offer few greater delights than to ride the winner of a great race ana to be led back t« the scales by an ecstattic crowd/ and that the sole drawback to the profession is the chance, of being' asked to pay income tax on £10,000 a year. J3ut how utterly untrue is such an opinion is well shown by the raoing correspondent of the N«w SquUi Echo, who. saw Fred ArcherVface at the Derby, and thus describes it : — . " It Was' like that of a man about to Ira hanged— a duellist fighting with a foe at once feared and hated— a man, in short,' in" any position , of awful" •train/ wifh ! the complex emotions of terror, "hope; arid- resolve.- ;.It i v was;'all the observations of a second ; built' brought home 'to the mind the abysmal depths of life and death, exultant joy or horrible despair, that underlie the gaiety and the blarej: the bright dres-; acs, tho smiling -women, tte popping of champagne bottles, and the vacuous noise of Epsom raceoourie." After this there would seem to t»e nothing for it but to start a Jockey's Bescue Socie^r." "' ; . ..;..•