168 RIDING 



Feet Inches 



Post and rail 4 o 



Post and rail . . . . . . . .41 



Post and rail 3 10 



These are taken twice, the remainder once only. 

 Post and rail . . . . . . . .44 



Post and rail . . .44 



Close paling fence 43 



Stone wall ........ 4 2 



Log fence 4 o 



Each furlong is marked with a white post. All races can be 

 seen from beginning to finish from the lawn or the stand. The 

 starting-posts are connected by electric wire with a starting-bell 

 in the paddock and a chronograph for timing the race at the 

 back of the judge's box. The assistant timekeeper goes with 

 the starter and touches the electric button when the horses 

 start ; this sounds the bell and starts the chronograph. 

 Electric 'scratching' boards are placed in different parts of the 

 ground, and are worked from the central scratching-office. 

 All horses go out with saddlecloths bearing numbers in red on 

 a white ground, corresponding to the horse's number on the 

 card, enabling strangers quickly to identify them. The weigh- 

 ing-room, stewards' -stand, stewards'-room, members'-room, and 

 jockeys'-room are in one building. From this there is a sub- 

 way for jockeys to the saddling paddock. In the jockeys'- 

 room are lockers, scales, shower-baths, &c. 



A hospital fitted with every appliance is situated in the 

 saddling paddock, a surgeon and dresser are paid by the club, 

 and there are also honorary surgeons. 



When one looks at the formidable nature of the fences in 

 the -steeplechase course, one appreciates the forethoughc of the 

 stewards in providing an ambulance waggon to go round a 

 smaller ring inside the steeplechase ring and accompany the 

 race. The moment a jockey is hurt he is carried to a spring 

 mattress and driven to the hospital in the paddock, and there 

 carefully attended to. Whenever the necessity compels the 

 infliction of a fine on a jockey, the amount is carried to a sepa- 



