96 RACE RIDING. 



place. I cannot too forcibly impress the necessity of 

 patience. 



When a jockey finds that his horse can go no faster 

 than he is galloping at the time being, he should almost 

 invariably take a pull at him, if only for half-a-dozen 

 strides, in order to give him a chance of " coming again," 

 which he could not do were he not eased off for a 

 moment. Exceptions to this would be, when the jockey 

 is close to the winning-post, has the lead, and finds he 

 can keep it ; and when his horse is one of the jady kind 

 which won't stand their mouths being touched. 



If a jockey, who has waiting orders, finds that all the 

 others are acting as if they had similar instructions, he 

 should try to avoid "getting the slip" from any of them. 

 This manoeuvre is carried out, when they are going slow, 

 by a rider catching his horse by the head and sending 

 him, it may be, five or six lengths in advance of his 

 field, before the other jockeys are aware of his inten- 

 tion. These lengths, gained thus with but trifling exer- 

 tion when the pace was bad, may be worth as many 

 pounds when they begin to race. 



It sometimes happens that the riders of the two best 

 horses wait too long on each other, and thus allow their 

 field a start which cannot be recovered in time. 



