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JOCKEYS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT It would perhaps be absurd to hint that the lads of the forties and fifties were more intelligent than those of the present time, but, all the same, few racing men of long experience will contradict that there is, and had been for some period before the war, a deartli of really good jockeys in England. The cause is not easy to discover, but it is a fact that many boys are spoilt by tiie pampering they receive as soon as they give premise of ability. Certain scribes are disposed to lavish praise upon them, with the result that the vanity of youth becomes aggressively conspicuous, and it would not be harmful if-the strictness of old times was carried out by those to whom the lads are apprenticed. Veteran in London Sporting Life.
