400 RACE RIDING. 



Many an important event has been lost from over-confidence 

 of the rider of the leading horse, who, when winning easily, 

 has tried to make a race of it for " the gallery," or has been 

 cajoled into slackening his speed by one of the other jockeys, 

 and has then been unable to make an effort in time when 

 required to do so. 



Above all things, a jockey should not mistake the winning 

 post for some other landmark, as did almost all the jockeys, 

 except S. Loates on Pax, in the race for the Hare Park 

 Handicap, during the Newmarket July Meeting of 1900. 

 Loates, who was nearly last, seeing his opponents in front 

 pull up, kept Pax going, took the lead, and was never caught 



As a last piece of advice, I would recommend the tyro 

 never to be too anxious " to get home," and never " to draw 

 it too fine." 



RIDING ROGUES. 



As the generality of rogues will run kindly enough, 

 until they are pressed or hustled, a jockey when riding one 

 of this sort should, as a rule, make the running, or at least 

 keep with the leaders, and, if he finds that he is winning easily 

 at the finish, he should, on no account, take a pull, or allow 

 any of the others, if he can help it, to close up on him ; for 

 many rogues will either not try a yard, or win by "the length 

 of a street." The jockey should sit still, ride as quietly 

 as possible, and should do all he can to persuade the jady 

 one that he is running away. It often happens that the more 

 the rider pulls, the faster will the " rogue " go. The jockey 

 should allow him to make his own running and effort, while 

 interfering with him as little as possible. Horses learn so 

 quickly what a race means, that I believe better results than 

 we often get would be obtained, were we to trust more to their 

 judgment than we do, as to how they should be ridden in 

 their races. 



