WINNING JOCKEYS.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 300, 2 March 1878, Page 4

WINNING JOCKEYS.

Again the returns of the wins scored by the leading jockeys are not without interest, especially to those whose tastes load them to back the rider rather than the horse, and trust more in the skill and science of the jockey than to the speed and stamina of the animal he bestrides. A first glace reveals the now apparently stereotyped state of affairs, F. Archer heading the list, that is, but during the past season he lias fairly ontHeroded Herod, such a total as the 218 which he has compiled reading like a merely fabulous hallucination. To achieve this marvellous result the Heath House wonder has appeared in the saddle on no fewer than 604 occasions, or to put it differently, about five times in every two days, Sundays included. Of course such exertion is not to be gone through without great care and solfdenial, and the very fact that, so many and such valuable races are entrusted to him is a sufficient proof of his honesty, integrity, and ability. He was fortunate in comingout under the auspices of such patrons as Lord Falmouth and Matthew Dawson, but there has been no luck in his maintaining the high position he so speedily secured, as with such masters the slightest lapse from duty would have instantly caused the withdrawal of there countenance, even if it had not the effect of blasting his career for ever. Fortunately Archer had the sense and stability to avoid those many treacherous temptations which beset the paths of rising and popular young jockeys, and he has had his reward. —Land and Water.

A statement made by Father llenn cherry that four million cases of infanticide occurred yearly in the United States, and endorsed by Bishop Morgan, witn the addition of an extra million, is exciting much comment in Dunedin, and is regarding as a most extraordinary hallucination.