136 INSTRUCTIONS TO RIDING BOYS. 



to take any momentary advantage that may offer 

 in any race in which he may be riding; and he is, 

 of course, to be a secret, sober, honest man, and 

 an experienced good rider, in riding both young 

 ones and old ones, in trials as well as in races, 

 under all the various circumstances in which 

 they take place ; in addition to these, he should 

 know well how to win any race he is put up 

 to ride in, that is, if he is on the best horse 

 in the party; and he should do this without 

 discovering the whole of the properties such a 

 horse may possess. If our jockey can do these 

 things snugly, it is all we will ask of him, as the 

 best one among them can do no more. 



I feel a little at a loss how to address the 

 trainer and jockey. Mr. Holcroft, in his in- 

 teresting Memoirs, observing upon the change 

 of manners, says, that there were no Misters 

 among training grooms and jockeys in his time; 

 nor, indeed, were there in my juvenile days, and 

 I came several years after the above celebrated 

 author. However, such, it appears, has since 

 been the progress made in the march of intel- 

 lect, that most of the above-mentioned persons 

 at the present day are, I believe, when spoken 



