XXI.—" SCHOOLING " 



Ordinary visitors, who attend such meetings as 

 Sandown and Kempton so as to watch horses 

 flying over fences, have little or no idea as to 

 the amount of time and trouble expended on 

 the thorough "schooling" of those beautiful 

 " leppers." Their education is not such a simple 

 matter as some of the critics think it is — they 

 who do the looking on, not the riding. Inci- 

 dental risks are connected with the work in- 

 evitably ; jockeys " chance " their necks in the 

 usual way as though life had few charms for 

 them except in a racing capacity; they face the 

 prospect of a fall with countenance irradiated. 

 It is no use their seeing the red light. When 

 their pluck is gone they might as well " go out " 

 themselves at once, since they are not likely to 

 do any good by their riding either at home or 

 abroad. Loss of nerve means loss of income in 

 this profession. " When you begin to funk, my 

 lad," said a fat trainer to his thin jockey, "it 



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