OUR JOCKEYS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1835, 10 April 1884, Page 3

OUR JOCKEYS.

Iv reviewing " Racecourse and Coverfcsicle," by Mr A. E T. Watson, the Satin day Review writes : — "Theie is a capital descnption of a visit to tho famous tiainci William Day, the author of a book called ' The Rucehoise in Tiaining,' which we leviewed in this journal. The wiitcr states that Mr William Day told lnin he believed he could have won the Dei by when iicling I'iomised Laud if lie hail followed his I o\\ n inclination and made pioper use of the house, instead of tiding a waiting i ace .it the suggestion of his father. Indeed, bespoke much in fa\our of making the 1 mining, or at least of making the best use of a hoise horn stait to finish, and he stroimly condemned the ' flashy sty le of winning by shoit heads that makes jockeys lo^e .so many kiccs nowadays.' He said that, although ' the public aic caught by this soit of thing,' many laces ai c thus thiown away. 'if the ]ocke> wins, they talk of Mb wondcitul finish, coming just in the nick ot time, and, it he is ]iist beaten, they decLue that no one else would ha\c got witluu a head' ot the winnci, ' w Inle all th«> time if he had wddfii judiciously, he might have won easily l)y a length and a half, 01 nia,} be much faithei.' In' an account of 'A Day with Tom Cannon,' we aic told that that celcbiated jockey to a gieat extent shares the opinion of William Day on this* point. ' You see,' said he, 'the whole secict of the matter is this— laces aie not won entnely on the pobt. You \e got to think of w inning all the way horn the stait.' William Day told the following anecdote to the a n then concerning a iSt. Leger which will be fiesh m the memories of most lacing men : — 'There was a casein point two or tluee years ago at Doncaster. " You had better have a bit on my horse ; I'm going to win to day," one of the c level est ot oui jockey* said to inc. "Well, the hoi =c hasn't done much yet, Ins he?" I asked. "No, he hasn't ; for 1 have ne\er quite had my way about riding him ; but to day I ha\e leave to udu iiim as [ think best, and I am certain we shall lvut them all," the jockey said ; and he did. Theic is no harm in mentioning nanv s— l am speaking of Jim (Joater and Ra^ond'Oi.' Camion made j some \eiy sensible reinuks to the author about the e\il lesults of the over use of the whip, especially with young hoises. 'Th.it unioitunato whip loses such a lot of laces for the boy,.' ' j\ t o one knows what .i numbi'i of two-ycai-olds aic mined by the whip and spui^..' He desmbc-j the nervous condition of a two >cai olfl, who 'ran List week and was hided,' lan again the day befoie yesteiday and was hided, 'and here he is once moio, and he knows tliat he's got to run and be hided again.' It is not to be wondered at tli.it he is ' too neivou^ to put out his full poueis/ or that when he goes back to Ins stable he will neithei eat nor dunk. Cannon icmaiked iuither that when he ndes two ycai olds that ha\e once had a Hogging at the hands of an unmerciful jockey, he can fed their heaits beating and bumping against his legs thiough the light ra< ing saddles ; and that when e.ueless jockejs tide these poor young things, the chances are that they get a bad stai t, and then ' out comes that blessed whip, and so they go whipping and bumping all over the couise. Spurs, too, haul at it, thoagh they don't often touch the hoise wheie they want to.' In noticing the immense sums obtained by jockeys m these days, the author tells us th.vt, ' unless populai rumour ens, one loekeyputbya fen tune of tiOO.OOO, 'a hancKoine fig'nie for a young man ot some fhe oi sh-and-twenty, who begin life in a, stable bo}'s jackpt without a sixpence to call Ins own ' Indeed, popular uimoni has put the foitnne at a much Inghu figuie, and it is ti-ne some limit weie placed to the ndieulous sums given to jockeys. The whole chapter on jockeys is interesting "

It is estimated that in the United Kingdom last year the vessels launched rcpit'sent a capital of .it least £19,000, 001>, and that in then 1 actual consti notion some i!(i2,00!) men must have been employed, betide? she vaster multitude engaged in mining, smelting, and manufactming the nou, laibing the coal, making the chains, sails, and liggina;, and in finishing and eugineeiing the vessels In icgaid to the actual amount of tonnige tin nod out, 1883 surpasses any picuous year. To make incombustible wtitmg and pi intuit; pipci, asbestos of the best quality is tieated with potassium permang mate, and then mixed with sulphuiic acul. About 02 per cent of such asbestos is mixed with ;"> per cent of wood pulp 111 water containing bora* and nine. A iuc pi oof ink is made of platinoiis chlotide and oil of lavender, mixed for wilting with Indian ink and gum, and foi punting with lampblack and \ainish.

Nn/w)^ Frugal, Dikt. —" My bieakfast," says Madame Nilsson, the pn-iia donna, "consists of a cup of coffee and a single 1 oil, and for dinner I take sou]), meat, \cgetables, cheese, biead and wine. If I sing I have nothing more to eat until the next morning. Otherwise, I lm c a cup of bouillon befoie letiring, and always a hot bath. I own a pair of Noifoik ponies, which I diive \\ lien I am at home, but I am afraid of strange hoises and sliange diivers, so I take my constitutional by walking two hoiusc\ei\ morning. Igo alone, for I do not want to talk, because the cold air gets to the lungs and is apt to injure the \oice ultimately. I am rigorous with myself, but I owe that care not to my own health, but to the compauy I am hired by and the public that pays to hear me. lam always ready, in consequence, and have never asked for the indulgence of the audience or an excuse ftom the manager. I never failed to keep an engagement but once, and that was unavoidable. I live in England a great deal as the guest of the Duke of Albany's family. lam intimately acquainted with the Piince&s of Wales, with whom I play little duets ; the Duke of Edinburgh, who is a violinist, often accompanies us."

Wo\]jeiU''ul Presence of Mixd. — "Right heie in Milwaukee Bay, about 30 years ago, a friend and myself had started out for a fish on the pier, and had taken out guns along to shoot ducks. Well, we hadn't been there long before I in some way lost my powder-horn overboaid, and it sank in 30ft of water. There it lay on the bottom in plain sight. My friend said he would dive for it. I noticed he didn't take off his powderhoin, and before I could call attention to it he was in the water. I waited about 20 minutes—" "Twenty minutes!" they all exclaimed, " That was the exact time, my friends. I held my watch in my bond and timed him. After 20 minutes I began to get a little nervous, and looked over the side of the boat, and what do you think I saw ?" "I suppose your friend laid on the bottom of ,the lake, drowned," ventured one. "No, yon five wrong. Hero is where he showed his presenoe of mind and thieving disposition. There he sat on the bottom of the lake, pouring powder out of my horn into his owu and whistling. , That's what I consider a remarkable incident of a man's presenoe of mind," 'No reply was made by any of the listeners, but each one quietly got up, looking. ,suapiciously at the story-teller, anc| latfc him alone, master of tho situation. ' ' .

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