A JOCKEY'S LIFE.
: There; are paople who, imagine that a jockey's life is a joyous life; that earth. can offeVr few greater,'delights than to ride the winhfer of a great race, and to be led back to the scales by an ecstatic crowd, and that the sole drawback to •the profession is the chance "of being asked to pay income lax on £IO,OOO a/year. - -But: how puntvue is such an opinion is well shown by the racing, Qorrespqudentrof the- Npw'Soufch Wales Echo, who saw Archer's face at the Derby,.and. thus.describes'it>- •
It was that like that of,a man about to be hanged—a duellist fighting with a foe at once feared.and man : in short, in any position of awful strain' with the complex emotions of terror, hope and resolve. It was all the observation of a second; but it brought homo to the mind, the abysmal depths.; of life and. death', exultant joy or 1 hornible despair, that-underlie - the.;gaicty arid the smiling women, the; popping- of chainjagne bottles, and the vaouous noise of .Epsom racecourse;"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2379, 21 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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173A JOCKEY'S LIFE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2379, 21 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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