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study the various landmarks ; so that he may know at any 

 moment how far he has got to go. I could mention more 

 than one instance of the Cesarewitch having been apparently 

 lost through a jockey not knowing how far away he was from 

 the winning-post. 



Jockeys are often unjustly criticised for the manner in which 

 they ride races, especially when they are on horses that, like 

 Mr. Bragg's Grand Flaneur, will make only one supreme 

 effort. John Osborne, who rode some of his finest races on 

 this famous horse, was once found fault with for having waited 

 too long with him ; the fact being that if he had taken the 

 opening which was given him, he would certainly have been 

 beaten, and consequently Osborne had to wait for another 

 opening, or " come round," which he had not enough weight 

 in hand to do. All sorts of harsh things were said about 

 Lester Reiff for the way in which he rode Good Luck in the 

 Cambridgeshire of 1900, and yet when Kempton Cannon had 

 the mount on that horse for the Liverpool Cup of the same 

 year, he performed in a similarly disappointing manner. 



Instead of waiting on the inside of a circular course for an 

 opening, it is often good policy for a jockey who is riding a 

 horse full of running to bring his animal past his opponents 

 on the outside, in which case he will almost always have a 

 clear road. In the Great Metropolitan Handicap of 1900, 

 M. Cannon was disappointed more than once with King's 

 Messenger. Finding that he could not get through his horses, 

 he gradually worked round them, made his effort on the out- 

 side of the course, and won in masterly fashion. 



Jockeys are frequently blamed for the shortcomings of their 

 horses. At the Liverpool July meeting of 1884, Genera] 

 Owen Williams' Black Diamond was ridden in the All-aged 

 Plate by Archer, and Mr. Wadlow's Frolic by Osborne. At 

 the distance, Frolic looked like winning ; but he died away, 

 and Archer won easily on Black Diamond. Osborne, whose 



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