PART II. 



TRAINING AND RACING. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Racing in India. 



ACING MEN AND HORSES ON FORMING A USEFUL STABLE THE 

 STYLE OF RACE-HORSE SUITED TO INDIA THE DIFFERENT CLASSES 

 AND THEIR RESPECTIVE FORM TIMING. 



IN England, racing is almost entirely confined to 

 professionals, and to a few monied men, who can afford to 

 run horses for amusement, just as others go in for 

 yachting, hunting or shooting, caring little for the cost, 

 as long as they get sufficient excitement out of the 

 particular sport they may pursue. There, racing is such 

 a complete business, and its attendant expenses are so 

 heavy, that a man of moderate means cannot, with any 

 safety, follow it, unless he adopts it as his profession. 

 In India, the small amount of public money and limited 

 speculation render the turf too precarious a means of 

 living, except in the case of jockeys and trainers, while 

 few of the latter find training pays, unless they be light 

 enough to earn their winning and losing mounts on the 

 horses of which they have charge. 



There are few representatives of the inonied section 



