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powers and what is left in liim : this is the leading 

 attribute that gives the professional jock the decided 

 advantage over the amateur, who may be quite as 

 good a horseman as the former. It is this, and 

 general judgment, that cause the superiority that 

 one professional possesses over another; the want of it 

 causes inferior jockies to as often beat their horses as 

 they do ; and this is done in a tenfold degree by the 

 generality of amateurs. 



It may be asked why (if a man is not qualified to 

 ride his own horse in a steeple-chase) not employ a 

 professional rider ? If his object is merely the ecldt 

 of winning, he had far better do so ; but if the 

 making money is the object, the objection to em- 

 ploying a professional is this : if he applies to one of 

 known celebrity, and few of the others are to be 

 trusted in any way, such a man will not risk his 

 neck but at a price that in small events would, with 

 other expenses, run away with the profit. Supposing 

 the stakes won, and as a man may hold himself 

 lucky if he wins one out of three steeple-chases, he 

 runs with the certainty of loss ; for the paying the 



