20 ' HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



medium of his horse's bony frame. Thus the jockey would 

 contribute to the horizontal impulse of his own weight ; and 

 exactly in proportion to the muscular power exerted by the 

 jockey, the muscular system of the horse would be relieved. 

 At the same time, no additional task is thrown on the bony 

 frame of the horse ; since, if the jockey had not used his 

 muscular power on it in impelling his own weight, the mus- 

 cular system of the horse must have been so employed on it. 

 It is true, not much is done after all with a prodigious 

 exertion, but if that little gain six inches in a hardly contested 

 race, it may make the difference of its being lost or won. 

 Thus an easy race is no exertion to a jockey, but after a 

 hardly contested one, he returns with his lips parched, his 

 tongue sticking to the roof of his mouth, and every muscle 

 quivering. Chifney, and perhaps one or two first-rate jockeys, 

 may attempt this at the end of a race, for the last four or 

 five strokes, for no strength would stand it longer ; but woe 

 to the moderate jockey who attempts it at all ! For without 



