THE TURF. 
person could be prevailed upon to submit to such severe 
discipline, who had not been inured to it from his youth. 
The only additional information that Mr. Sandiver has 
the power to communicate is, that John Arnull, when 
rider to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, was 
desired to reduce himself as much as he possibly could, 
to enable him to ride a particular horse, in consequence 
of which he abstained from animal, and even from 
farinaceous food, for eight successive days, and the only 
substitute was now and then an apple. He was not 
injured by it. Dennis Fitzpatrick, a person continually 
employed as a rider, declares that he is less fatigued, 
and has more strength to contend with a determined 
horse in a severe race, when moderately reduced, than 
when allowed to live as he pleased, although he never 
weighs more than nine stone, and has frequently reduced 
himself to seven." * 
The present system of wasting varies from the one 
here described, and particularly as to the length of the 
walk, which appears to have been unnecessarily severe. 
The modern Newmarket jockey seldom exceeds four 
miles out, and then he has a house to stop at in which 
there is a large fire, by which the perspiration is very 
much increased. Indeed, it sometimes becomes so 
excessive, that he may be seen scraping it off the 
uncovered parts of his person after the manner in which 
the race-horse is scraped, using a small horn for the 
* Arnull died at the age of 62 ; Pitzpatrick at 42, from a cold taken 
in wasting. 
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