THE GREAT ENGLISH JOCKEY.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1486, 12 January 1882, Page 4

THE GREAT ENGLISH JOCKEY.

Au''MKr's {i\or.\gp of wins and mounts during the la^L few yeaiy makes it liavtl foi Ins detwictois to o\-|ilun his success Many l.ioc-gocis piotisb tli.it Aichei wins so often because ho is so oft°n on ilio fn\oiite, but f equently the favorite holds the p >s!tion simply because Archer ndes. The figures iema.lll. Tn 157.~> Aiclier won 172 races; in lSTOhcuon 207 ; ne\t year he won 218 ; the next 22 ( > ; in Iy7')1 y 7') )w -was cvcliti'd with 107 ; add m ISSO he won 120 This yea. up to 1 Oth Scpt"inl>"i, out of .T/2 mounts he h.is won Mi) I.XCLS, ;ui average surely ;ilto^othct excpption.il I h successes this jear ,\u> tlic pioio siuj'fi^im/, beLau^o In* is di'lnnod from ndiii" in many l.ices ov. ing to the tact tint liv cannot go to the scale under Bst (jib or 71b, a weight ■u'liHi he often has nicch dillioulty in loac'imar. Aichci's lencih of leg is a great assistance to h'm, and gives him tent ukablo power in the saddle, He &ceim 'omethnos, to as it -v\erc, sit luck md dr.vij his lioise lj"forp him. It is a rinio'.is and under cerlain conditions an extremely asieeablo &iglit to watch the i opular jockey coming up towards the judge's box, level, perhaps, with the leading hoi ses, ov it may be a little behind them. At that piecise moment when the effoi t should be made Aichei'fj mount &ccm& giadually to foigc .'head and steal to the front; a glance o\er his shoulder, which he can give ithout di&tui bin</ his &e,it in the saddle .is shoiter lideis appear to do, shows him the state of the case as regards the other hoiscs, and he cither lides his animal with \ igorous severity, or, if this be not necessary, maintains —if possible — a sufficient advantage to the end. Another rcqaisite of jockeyship is courage, and this Aichcr possesses in abundance, as his dashes on the rails round Tattenham Corner and such like dangerous places amply demonsti ate. In Bend Or's T)ei by, for example, it is said that his lelt foot actually .shaved a post, and when one thinks of the hoi nble edect of smashing a leg against a massive piece of wood when lacing at thib temfic pace, the daiing which urns the nsk so line becomes apparent. "(Jetting the rails," is usually an advantage, as being the shottest way lound the turning, but the jockey must know when to seek this advantage, and to avoid being shut in, as sometimes happens. — <( Standard."

Why are fowls the cheapest, birds to keep ?— Because at every grain of corn they make a peck. A s \.L3tON-NiiT, 200 yards in length, set nfc the Kaing.iirlooh fiihing station on Loch Linnhe, Scotland, lately, was carried off by a whale passing down tho loch. The day following tho whole lot — net, buoys Hnf l anchors — wee found within a mile of the island of Shuna. Charles Hanison, the Mayor of Chicdgo, "-ays that when a man pels full of A\hi-kv he so p .i home and beats bin wife, but when he full of boor he woes homo to fall asleep, and his wife boats him. Pix-Aioxi'A* — This pln'ase originated in the custom which was in the fifteenth century of making New Year's gifts of pins to ladies, instead of wooden skewers, which they used until the end of the foui teenth century . A cixubuatkd lawyer once s>aid that the three most troublesome clients he ever had were a young kdy who wanted to be married, a married woman who wanted to be divorced, and an old maid who didn't know what she wanted. Thk husband — " That was really a very meritorious little dinner that your cousin gave us, my dear, but I was a little surprised to &cc you taking some of the salad. There was garlic in it." The wife (absently) — " Oh, that made no difference. He took some of it too. " T iiu Coming Bonapabt.— Prince Victor, who is now 19 yeais old, is said to be a youth whose life is a? blameless as that of the gallaut boy who was left to die by Zulu spears, and we are told he inherits the quicknets and brilliaucy of intellect of his father. As the son of Clothilde, he can trace his lienage for eight hundred years, through the lonpr line of soldier the Princes of Savoy to that almost legendary hero, Count Humbert ; and through whom he is now the head of tho Bonnpartist House. He must feel far more ptide as a grandson of Victor Etnanuel than as a great grandson of Carlo Bonapartp. He is not half or wholly Dutch, as was the Third Napolen ; nor is he partly Spanish, as was Prince Louis Napoleon ; but his Mood i" almost as purely Italian as that which ran in the veins of Napoleon the Great. The church cannot but look with favour <?n the i>on of the pious Clothilde ; the liberal ImperaliHts will believe that he has inherited to some extent the democrutin impulses of his father, and those to whom Bonaparti-m is the cult of military floiywill believe that a Prince of the House of Savoy is mentally a born Boldier. Dark ai the prospects of the Imperialists may beem at this moment, they are certainly not darker than were those of the Legitimists for half a century, and as Henry Y. could have had the crown of France a few years since ' but for tiw own o^f-tinncy, it must be admittpd that there is <•. chance that " a Prince, blameless in character, and the inheritor not only of phe Napoleon traditions,' but of the fnjne of Prince Eugene and King Victor Emsnuel, may yet be orowned as NapoleonlV, ' \ : ,:-' t '