4I2 RACE RIDING. 



sooner with a lead than without one. This is specially true 

 with young ones, which are apt to sprawl about, and go on 

 with all sorts of " calfish " tricks when they are in front ; at 

 least during the first part of a race. Some horses, however, 

 will never run kindly except when they are making their 

 own running. 



The Miner was a horse that would not make his own 

 running, though he was one of the stoutest horses of his 

 day. If he had had a pace-maker in the St. Leger, history 

 might have been written differently, though the admirers of 

 the famous Malton chestnut will not hear of such a thing. 

 Undoubtedly, it was the strong pace set by Blair Athol and 

 Ely in the Great Yorkshire Stakes, in which Chaloner and 

 Custance tried the cutting-down game, that enabled the Miner 

 to win at York, and called him into prominent notice for the 

 great Doncaster event. 



It is essential that the jockey on the pace-maker should 

 judge the pace accurately. If he does not make it strong 

 enough, and if there is no other horse to set the lead, the 

 jockey in whose interest the pace-maker was supposed to act, 

 should as a rule make his own running. Thus, in the St. 

 Leger of 1873, when Merry Sunshine failed to make the pace 

 fast, enough for Marie Stuart and Doncaster, these stable- 

 companions of his took up the running near the Red House, 

 and finished first and second. In this race, Mr. Merry's 

 colours were in the van from the fall of the flag. 



MAKING THE RUNNING. 



Experience tells us that 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 make the pace fast enough, as 

 did Pratt on Sornette in the Grand Prix of 1870. When 

 Apology beat one of the best fields that ever went to the post 



