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CHAPTER V. 



WASTING FOR RACE RIDING. 



Men waste for riding, either to keep down their weight 

 for a considerable time, as jockeys have to do during 

 the racing season, or for one particular race or meeting. 

 In the first case, a man should chiefly rely on abstinence 

 in the matter of food and drink, and exercise, as physic 

 and heavy sweats continued for a long time would 

 destroy his strength and nei-ve. In training, the diet 

 should be limited to fresh meat, boiled, grilled, or roast- 

 on no account stewed or fried — plain boiled fish without 

 sauce, dry biscuit, toast, and stale bread, with a small 

 variety of vegetables that do not put up weight, such 

 as onions, which are particularly useful in this respect, 

 but on no account should sauce or butter be used with 

 them. Salt ought to be the only condiment allowed. 

 Jockeys generally confine themselves to cold meat and 

 biscuit, which food palls quickly on their appetite. 



