My Racing Adventures 



is time to pawn your breeches and boots ; and 

 what you wear afterwards will be for the sake 

 of decency, not for sport." What sense in a 

 nutshell ! 



With regard to the practice of "schooling" 

 young thoroughbreds to jump for racing I may 

 appropriately give a few words of description. 

 Methods differ as to points of detail, but the 

 main principle is the same. For my own part, 

 when I have a young one to teach, I like to put 

 him loose in a school over some bars not very 

 high and hunt him round with a whip. He soon 

 begins to learn what he is required to do. If 

 he raps his shins a little it will do him no harm ; 

 it will help, indeed, to facilitate the educational 

 process, for he is pretty certain to have a good 

 memory. 



After treating him to that novel experience, 

 and giving him every encouragement, I should 

 next ride him over small hurdles with an old 

 horse — that is, a reliable and capable jumper — to 

 lead or go alongside him. In the majority of 

 cases he manages to get over somehow; if he 

 falls over, as he may easily do, his jockey need 

 not expostulate with him roughly or otherwise. 

 We must hope for better luck next time. One 

 cannot have omelettes without breaking eggs; 



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