58 FLAT-RACING EXPLAINED. 



dodge their mount about, until in long races be 

 has spun himself out. When this happens, and 

 the horse cannot be driven to reacli the winning- 

 post (making practically only a poor show at the 

 finish), the same old story always comes up to 

 account for it. "The horse had a bit the worst 

 of the weights, and could not quite get home. He 

 was short a gallop or two, perhaps, but will do 

 better next time." 



While horses of suflScient lung capacity can be 

 trained and ridden to run their races at various 

 distances up to one and a quarter miles at high 

 Sliced without reinflatiug the lungs, so by the 

 adoption of the process of reinflatiou, as I have 

 said, horses can be trained and ridden to run at 

 liigh speed any distance upwards prescribed by the 

 rules of racing. 



To say that English jockeys cannot ride on these 

 lines would certainly be very unfair to them, espe- 

 cially when we know how many of them are en- 

 dowed with keen observation and no inconsiderable 

 intelligence. But whether they will find a means 

 of breaking away from the old style, and in its 

 place have recourse to the scientific methods Sloan 

 lias favored us with, Avhich I have ventured to point 

 out, remains to be seen. Instead of the suicidal 

 policy of "waiting"— a policy Sloan does not put 

 )pt,o practice— perhaps they will be jufiuced to rcr 



