RACE RIDING AND IN THE SHOW RING 



I DO not suppose that man}^ of my readers 

 wiU wish to wear a silk jacket. Still perhaps 

 some of the younger ones, ' full of ambition ' 

 and ' emulators of every man's good parts/ 

 may wish to try their skill and after all it is 

 necessary to say a few words about race riding 

 in any book which treats of horsemanship. 



It is unnecessary to say that the Turf is very 

 differently governed now to what it was even 

 a very few years ago. Formerly a man had 

 only to appear in a silk jacket and give his name 

 to the Clerk of the Scales and he could ride in 

 any race and on even terms with professional 

 jockeys. Now-a-days the rules about gentlemen 

 riders are strict. Curiously all that appears in 

 the Rules of Racing on the subject of Gentlemen 

 Riders is to the effect that gentlemen wishing 

 to ride in races other than those open to Gentlemen 

 Riders must obtain an annual permission to do 

 so from the Stewards of the Jockey Club and 

 pay 5 sovs. to the Bentinck Benevolent Fund. 

 Gentlemen Riders however are very clearly 

 defined in the National Hunt Rules which lay 

 down that Qualified riders are persons who 

 have never ridden for hire, and quaHfied either 



