354 TRYING TWO-YEAR OLDS. 



Notwithstanding we have been thus particular 

 in laying down injunctions for secrecy in weigh- 

 ing riders for trials or races, yet no precautions 

 can dispense with the necessity of a perfect good 

 understanding, as regards racing, between the 

 private training groom and the private jockey 

 belonging to the racing establishment of any no- 

 bleman or gentleman, and strict integrity towards 

 their employer ; if this does not exist, they should 

 be parted; for, unless the above two men agree to 

 do the best they can for their employer, the busi- 

 ness of the establishment cannot go on with that 

 certainty with which it ought. But from the de- 

 scription we have given of our jockey, and from 

 the long and repeated experience we may be 

 supposed to have had of his integrity in all 

 matters of racing in which he has been engaged, 

 it is not to be apprehended that any jealous sus- 

 picion can exist between him and the training 

 groom. When the jockey is wanted to ride, the 

 trainer apprizes him of it in due time, as well as 

 of the weight, if a light one, as perhaps eight 

 stone, he will require him to be on such a day. 

 The jockey instantly prepares, by wasting or 

 punishing, (taking but small portions of food), 

 to get himself down to the weight. But when 



