4 o8 RACE RIDING. 



advantages that it is well worth a trial. Although the 

 "clock" is used in much the same way for training in 

 Australia, New Zealand and America, I refer to its employ- 

 ment particularly in India, because I had many years' practical 

 experience of it in that country. 



THE DIFFERENT WAYS OF RIDING A RACE 

 May be summed up as follows : I. Waiting ; 2. Using a 

 pace-maker; 3. Making the running ; 4. Waiting in front ; 5. 

 Keeping with one's horses, and then, if one can, coming away 

 at the finish and winning. As it is impossible to foretell how 

 a race will be run, or what changes may occur while the 

 horses are running ; a jockey should be ready to vary his 

 tactics, according to circumstances, with the utmost prompt- 

 ness. When we consider that the time for action often allows 

 only two or three seconds during which to calculate the 

 various chances and to resolve what to do, we shall cease 

 to wonder that this jockey instinct, or intuitive power of 

 grasping the situation, combined with quickness and courage 

 to act, is as rare a mental faculty as genius in any other walk 

 of life. Possibly, a dozen men in England who can ride 

 8 st. 7 Ib. possess it ; probably, not as many. 



WAITING. 



As a rule, in all fairly long races, a jockey should wait; 

 for by doing so, the horse will not incur the risk of being 

 run to a standstill, and the rider, seeing how the other 

 horses are going, can form a good judgment as to the advisa- 

 bility of remaining, for the present, where he is, or of going 

 to the front. If he injudiciously forces the pace from the 

 start, he will probably not find out his mistake until the race 

 has been lost. 



A capital jockey who had not the reputation of always 



