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also be convenient here, to hold the trusses and small 

 weights, as occasion may require ; for there are many 

 jockeys at several of our country meetings who are 

 employed to ride for a variety of masters, and some- 

 times, different races for their first or principal masters, 

 which obliges them to vary their weights, and occasion- 

 ally to shift them from one saddle to another. When 

 the weights do not run high, and a jockey can come to 

 the weight himself, dead weight of course is not want- 

 ed. The trusses and small weights, belonging to differ- 

 ent trainers, are then left in the care of one of their 

 boys, or any convenient person who may be near at 

 the moment ; perhaps they are thrown down in the 

 weighing-house, and are thereby liable to be mislaid or 

 lost; or, not unlikely, some of the shot may be taken 

 out of them. Racing is now becme a game of such 

 importance to men of business on the turf, that nothing 

 which regards it should be done in an uncertain, idle, 

 or slovenly manner. These trusses and small weights, 

 when not in use, should therefore be given in charge of 

 the man who attends the scales ; by him they should 

 be locked up in the cupboards, and he should be made 

 accountable for them to the different persons to whom 

 they may belong. 



The space between the weighing-house and the 

 grand stand is to be formed into a x^ard, enclosed by 

 rails about four feet high. This enclosure should 

 extend ten feet beyond each extremity of the front, 

 observing to leave the gateways in the positions as 

 marked in the plan of the course ; tliat near the judge's 



