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Come all ye bold trainers attend to my song, / It's a rule of the A. J. C. / You mustn't train ponies, for that's very wrong / By the rules of the A. J. C. / You have to wear winkers when crossing the street, / For fear that a pony you'd happen to meet / If you hear one about, you must beat a retreat / That's a rule of the A. J. C.
And all ye bold owners will find without fail / By the rules of the A. J. C., / The jockey boys' fees you must pay at the scale / It's a rule of the A. J. C. / When your horse wins a fiver, you'll laugh, I'll be bound, / But you won't laugh so much by the time that you've found / That the fee to the boy is exactly ten pound! / That's a rule of the A. J. C.
And all ye bold "Books" who are keeping a shop, / In the rules of the A. J. C., / There's a new regulation that says you must stop! / That's a rule of the A. J. C. / You must give up your shop with its pipes and cigars / To an unlicensed man who is thanking his stars, / While you go and bet in the threepenny bars / That's a rule of the A. J. C.
And all ye small jockeys who ride in a race, / In the rules of the A. J. C. / If owners' instructions are "Don't get a place", / By the rules of the A. J. C., / You must ride the horse out -- though, of course, if you do / You will get no more mounts, it's starvation to you. / But, bless you, you'll always find plenty to chew / In the rules of the A. J. C.
The Bulletin, 26 August 1899