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All this starving, suffering and grilling 

 these boys undergo to keep down their 

 weight can be avoided by breeding for 

 smallness, strength and quick intelligence; 

 and a family of jockeys can be produced 

 who will always be fit and ready to meet any 

 racing requirements. It is just as easy to 

 produce the jockey of the right size, weight, 

 and with it all, intelligence, as it is to breed 

 ponies or half-pound chickens and the like. 

 The trouble is that a good ninety pound 

 jockey invariably marries a one hundred 

 fifty or one hundred sixty pound woman, 

 and, when he is sixty years old, his weight 

 is one hundred and thirty pounds and her 

 weight two hundred pounds. You see in 

 their families one hundred sixty pound 

 daughters and one hundred thirty pound 

 sons, and you can better understand 

 their bitter disappointment; how the extra 

 twenty or thirty pounds their sons possess 

 is their ruin. Their vocation is lost. In- 

 telligent mating would have saved all this. 

 A "Jockey Registry" will come some day 

 on this same principle. I once collected 

 and bred a small drove of miniature Al- 



