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taiiity" ill racing, joelveys will continue to "wait 

 and come with one run or dash at the finish;" but I 

 am hoping, by what is set out in the pages of this 

 work. I may to some small extent help to "screw 

 the neck" of that long-continued and, I may add, 

 egregious folly. 



I can only infer that races of one and a half miles 

 and upwards arc not run without reinliating the 

 lungs. Our English method of riding this kind 

 of races in every way favors the idea that horses 

 do reiuflate, or, as I have said, "recharge," the rate 

 of speed not being so fast as to prevent it. Further- 

 more, we have no straightawaj' mile and a half 

 courses, and where there are turns and necessities 

 for easing up in running, horses invariably can 

 manage to get some air in. Wlien they can do this, 

 they do not get beaten very readily. 



In the matter of race-riding, however, jockeys, it 

 would seem, are as yet a longish way from having 

 acquired the necessary knowledge of the subject 

 to enable them to accomplish the task of rein- 

 flating a horse's lungs, quite apart from the some- 

 what delicate art of effecting it at the right or 

 critical moment. 



Consistent with rather ancient, and I am afraid 

 prejudiced, notions, they too often prefer to sit 

 still in the saddle, and in many cases pull and 



