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some idea of judging the pace at which he is going. This 

 is a most difficult matter, and there is not one boy out of a 

 hundred that ever learns it. However, there are some. 

 Isaac Murphy, the famous negro jockey, was one of the best 

 judges of pace on the American turf. He could tell to 

 almost the fraction of a second just how fast a horse under 

 him was going. That is one of the things that brought 

 him fame. 



I, therefore, urge that when a trainer sends a boy out 

 for a fast quarter, half or mile, he should afterward tell him 

 just how fast he was going, in order that the lad may form 

 some idea for himself. This is the way to make a real 

 jockey, and the only course to follow if a trainer is really in 

 earnest with the boy. I have known good jockeys and boys 

 who won many races who had not the slightest idea how 

 fast they were going. These were exceptions. They 

 would never have won in a race of the olden time, when the 

 distances were greater than they are now. Any of the 

 smart little negroes of Murphy's time could have made the 

 best of these " get-off-quick-and-come-home boys " look very 

 cheap. 



But the style of riding and the distances have changed, 

 together with the horses. At the same time these points 

 are all essential even now. Tod Sloan observes them. 

 They are not foreign to Lester and John Reiff, Thomas 

 Burns, Winnie O'Connor and a host of other good ones 

 that might be mentioned. 



Pace must be taught the lad to make him a real, dyed-in- 

 the-wool jockey. In the meantime he must of his own vo- 

 lition and natural aptitude become acquainted with the habits 

 of the horse. He must learn to feel out the animal and tell 

 about what amount of endurance there is in the horse. Of 

 course, in no case would a jockey or rider be able to tell 

 anything of a horse's condition or ability the first time he 

 was placed upon him. The trainer alone is supposed to 

 know this, but beyond his information there is something 

 the boy must learn and something the trainer does not 

 know. That is, at exactly the point the horse will begin to 

 get tired. The boy feels this tiredness on the part of the 

 horse and realizes it by intuition, but the trainer gets his 

 information second-handed. Therefore, there are some 



