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CLEAN WAY FRENCH JOCKEYS RIDE Here is a part of a letter about French riding and riders in races from a good judge who visits and observes doings on the courses about Paris: j "The way the jockeys rode an France left a great impression. A race might have been some mechanical toy, so clean did tliey all ride, and when rounding a bend the horsemanship was perfect. At some of these points, always at the turn for home, an official is there to watcli the riding, and bad luck to him who is reported. He stands down, there, is no calling cf evidence; the officials report is the verdict. Ths jockeys are aware of this, some from personal experience to their: disadvantage, the result being that each rider looks to his: horse and his liorse alone when rouuliiig for home. He is not screaming at someone else; he swings the bend in one position-, and the whole field come into the straight as if mechanically propelled."
