Soft Times for Present Day Riders, Daily Racing Form, 1920-01-16

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SOFT TIMES FOR PRESENT DAY RIDERS • Talkiag al yackeya generally, they lire la ■ lax-urloua " age as comnan I with th ir |»rede«-essors. aad the have not the leaa hard look of so man • f the latter. According to traiaera, too, laziness is the besetting sin of the present day school of ridei-. So;,,, do follow the old - f.i-liii lied way of [ keeping weight down, tmi iirtifl ial means are favored by the majority, and I have not the least ■loulit thai constant reaonrce to aach lower- physical ■ vitality- I, or jodgmenl leems to be the chief charge . L.uii-t the riihr- of Ihe time. There i- a lack • r ready resource to meet rapidly changing altna i tiotis and of prompt aeti pialities which di- | lingnisfa the jwckcj fraaa the mere horseman hut | vith rigaraites taken apparently a- aaateaaace aad Turkish hath- preferred to tea mile -w.-at-. it is I I little vnder that the standard af efficiency fails , i , low the Ideals af so many in the traialag pro- i reaaioa who have beea yaekeya thtmatlvea I well j reaaember the Hoa. Ilfargt Lambton tendering ! ■aaae advice t" y g aspirants: "Work harder walk More, -mi ;.. i. ih e all, never -moke an Id j, ,ii have rinishetl riding U t the da Ever "nipper" -lioiihi have thai pasted in the lining of 1 1- hat .--Mim iie-tei- Dportlag Chronicle. i


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