Riding Orders 



character. I steered her again, and the owner 

 said : " Ride her how you like, and see if you can 

 do any better without my ridiculous interference." 

 Making more use of her the second time, I was 

 able to win pretty comfortably ; whereupon that 

 old-fashioned and noble-minded trainer was pro- 

 fuse in his acknowledgments. " You know more 

 than I do," he cried, " and if you didn't, you 

 would have to employ a maiden aunt to keep 

 your head straight." 



At one time I rode frequently for Mr W. H. 

 and Mr " Garry " Moore, who are both thoroughly 

 practical and experienced in respect to every 

 point of the game. Their riding orders were 

 always brief and lucid ; there was no excess of 

 verbiage. Indeed, Mr Willy Moore, before he 

 put me in the saddle to win the " National " on 

 " Why Not," said : " You know as much about 

 the old horse as I do, Arthur, so you know what 

 to do." I did it — a blessed consummation. 

 " Why Not " was always in the first six or seven, 

 though it was very hard work to get him home 

 with flying colours. 



" When he is stone-cold don't ride for a fall " 

 — that was generally the advice given to me by 

 the brothers Moore before I rode out of the 

 paddock on one of their candidates. The con- 



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