92 RACE RIDING. 



would beat the best and fastest stayer in the kingdom. 

 Weight tires a horse, and breaks his heart quite as 

 readily as pace will do. A horse, in fact, should be 

 ridden more with regard to the distance he can compass, 

 than to the weight he has to carry. 



I may observe in passing, that it is a very general idea 

 that weight " tells " on a horse, in a race, only after a 

 certain distance has been run. I am inclined to think 

 that this supposition is erroneous, and that every pound 

 of extra weight, on a horse's back, diminishes the rate of 

 speed at which he can travel, even during the early 

 portion of the journey, when he is quite untired. 



Making the Running.— A jockey should never make 

 his own running, except when he is on a horse that frets 

 or goes unkindly when there is anything in front of him, 

 or when he cannot get any other rider to force the pace 

 fast enough. ; 



If a jockey who has received orders to make use of 

 his horse and not to wait, finds that the pace is made 

 quite strong enough, he will, if he be a good judge, wait 

 close at hand on the leader or leaders, and will be ready, 

 when they are beaten, to go to the front, by which time 

 he ought to know the exact state of affairs. If, however, 

 he be incapable of acting up to the spirit of his orders, 



