86 RACE RIDING, 



" I do not think that some of the younger generation, 

 who are always scheming and contriving to get an inside 

 place and a flying start, would have done a tithe of the 

 good for the mare which her own natural sagacity and 

 love of the game did for her, and for her legion of backers, 

 many of whom profited largely by reason of their know- 

 ledge of this pecularity of the flying Nutbush." 



The saying that a man will always beat a boy when it 

 comes to racing is equally true when applied to starting; 

 "At the start, boys (for I allude to them — the light 

 weights of the present day) are generally left at the post 

 or get badly off, and ride their horses to a standstill 

 before half the distance has been gone over, in the vain 

 hope of regaining their lost ground." (Mr, William Day.) 

 How often it happens that in a big handicap, after two 

 or three false starts, the light weights are " all over the 

 place," while their horses are fretful and out of hand. 

 When they return with difficulty to the starter, they are 

 unable to get them quickly " on their legs," and they 

 let them " go all abroad " with the certainty of running 

 them to a standstill before they can steady them ; while 

 one of the top weights, who on public form appears to 

 have 7 lbs. the worst of the handicap, gets off well in 

 front with his horse cool and collected, and is not caught 



