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(the latter part of his duty in itself no trifle), he is 

 obliged for a considerable period of the year to 

 reduce and keep down his natural weight by train- 

 ing. 



This training consists of three different methods, 

 the use of which depends entirely on the consti- 

 tution of the jockey : the use of aperient medicine, 

 sweating, and a light diet. While some consti- 

 tutions are much injured by the use of aperient 

 medicines, others require large and frequent doses. 



mond is about 108 miles, and from Richmond to Manchester, about 

 72 ; this was performed on horseback, and for the most part over 

 cross-country roads, which in those days were always in the worst 

 possible state. 



The next are cases of a modern date. Calloway, after riding Bird- 

 catcher, (second for the St. Leger"), at Doncaster, on Tuesday, 18th 

 September, 1832, set off for Shrewsbury, where he rode Clarion on 

 the following day, which ran third for the Gold Cup. No sooner was 

 this race decided than he again set off for Doncaster, where he rode 

 on Thursday ! The distance from Doncaster to Shrewsbury is IGO 

 miles. 



At the Caledonian Meeting in 1837, Lye, on the Wednesday, rode 

 and won twice ; and on the following day, Thursday, he rode and 

 won at Northallerton, in Yorkshire, the distance from Musselburgh 

 to which is 170 miles. John Holmes, at the same Northallerton 

 Meeting, won a stake on Appleton Lad, on Saturday, and left the 

 town at six o'clock the same evening, and on the Monday following 

 won the Kirwans (the Irish Oatlands') with Mr. Ferguson's famous 

 horse, Harkaway. 



Wakefield, the jockey at Newmarket, on one occasion within the 

 last two or three years, travelled 500 miles in the course of five days ; 

 three nights and two days of which he passed outside a coach, and 

 during this period, walked 24 miles in sweaters, and rode six races, 

 of which he won three. 



