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CHAPTER IX. 



Wasting for Race Riding. 



MEN waste for riding, either to keep down their 

 weight for a considerable time, as jockeys have to do 

 during the racing season, or for one particular race or 

 meeting. In the first case, a man should " rely on 

 abstinence in the matter of food and drink, and exercise, 

 as physic and heavy sweats continued for along lime 

 would destroy his strength and nerve. In training, the 

 diet should be limited to fresh meat boiled, grilled, or 

 roast on no account stewed or fried plain boiled fish 

 without sauce, dry, hard biscuit and toast, with a small 

 variety of vegetables that do not put up weight, such 

 as onions, which are particularly useful in this respect, 

 but on no account should sauce or butter be used with 

 them. Salt ought to be the only condiment allowed. 

 Jockeys generally confine themselves to cold meat and 

 biscuit, which food palls quickly on their appetite. 

 Bread, potatoes, cauliflower, peas, rice, butter, milk, fat of 

 every kind, soups, puddings, sugar, sweets, stews, 

 minces, and everything containing an excess of fat, 

 sugar or starch should be carefully avoided. It is a 

 well-known fact, that to keep in good health one should 

 eat daily a certain proportion of vegetables in order 

 that certain salts, contained in them, may be furnished 

 to the system. By cooking, a large proportion of these 



