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SOFT TIMES FOR PRESENTDAY RIDERS Talking of jockeys generally they live in a lux ¬ urious age as compared with their predecessors and they have not the lean hard look of so many of the latter According to trainers too laziness is the besetting sin of the presentday school of riders Some do follow the oldfashioned way of keuping weight drtwn but artificial means are favored by the majority and I have not the least doubt that constant resource to such lowers physical vitality vitalityPoor Poor Judgment seems to be the chief charge against the riders of the time There isa lack of ready resource to meet rapidly changing situations and of prompt action qualities which distinguish the jockey from the mere horseman but with cigarettes taken apparently as sustenance arid Turkish baths preferred to tenmile sweats it is little wonder that the standard of efficiency falls below the ideals of so many in the training pro ¬ fession who have been Jockeys themselves I well remember the Hon Jeorgc Lambton tendering some advice to young aspirants AAork harder walk nn re smoke less above all never smoke until you hiive finished riding for the day Every nipper should have that pasted in the lining of his hat Manchester Sporting Chronicle
