Sporting notions of present days and past

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90 SPORTING NOTIONS
of more Irishmen's company in England at
if
Liverpool Spring Meeting than at any other
time of the year. According to ancient authority, if
Liverpool's is the coldest racecourse in England,
I do not agree with this myself. As a matter
of fact, I would back the South to find one
against all-comers or selection.
Accidents, we know, will happen. This we see
proved in re the horse and his rider often
enough, goodness knows. I believe the leading
jockeys hold preference for, when they come a
bad spill, being taken right away from the scene i
of accident to a regularly constituted hospital,
instead of putting up in racecourse infirmaries.
To this end a bank has been organised supported
by a voluntary tax per ride, and this method will,
I hope, be given further effect—viz., to form a
provident fund, out of which disabled jockeys
and those who, having outlived patronage, find
the world hard to them, can be cared for. I am
not going to preach about that nor dictate to
individuals whose business public side begins
and ends with them riding professionally. Still,
one cannot help being informed more or less as
to celebrities' personal affairs, and jockeys
are
celebrities. Each rider should be his own pro-
vident fund. Some are prudent in management;
some never get a real chance of making them-
selves safe against bad luck and its consequences.
Anyway, those in good case might well contribute
to a club without missing their subscription,
while the less well-to-do, with necessity for guard-
ing against getting left brought more before
their eyes would naturally feel impelled to put by
in the mutual insurance office. Were this done
by most jockeys " out of their time " and by