| Show THE JOCKEY AT HOME People who see ee a popular Jockey 1 al althe the poet skin like velvet velve muscles musel like bite steel and weighing scarcely more tha than thana a good aired doll hardly ever eer pause paule to 10 on what has hIlS to be gone to attain this result The only time when a rid rider rider er can really venture to enjoy himself u II uin In the tho winter during which period he puts put on perhaps from 26 21 to 30 pounds pound a of at flesh h All this has to come oft orr and come off quickly quick Rt as soon eoon al ac the first days of oC spring herald the approach ut of the flat racing season Huon A man who un um understand his business can throw oft olt k 30 pounds of oC superfluous tissue In 29 days daya This operation le Is known In turf argot arrotas as wasting Different jockeys adopt various arlou meth melh methods o s ot of Of Fred Ar her the famous English jockey u used d to spend entire days das In hla hie private Turkish bah eating nothing meanwhile but a little dry toast and drinking every half hour baur or so a steaming glass ot of hot water voted with gin In order to Increase the perspiration John Osborne once relieved himself of seven pounds of oC flesh In II a single wait but the walk In Question qU covered 40 10 miles and lasted nine hours File lIIs dt diet on this occasion was II a hard biscuit bleull pus pur purchased chased at n a roadside public house and anda served In vinegar John Joba 0 a poached egg agaIn once ate nothing but III as occasional apple for Cor eight days In order to reduce himself to 10 rid dd et f n a particular horse for the Wales Benjamin Smith one ot of t the e rode end ad adwon gamest jockeys on record who broken leg used I Ilive to won ivon n a race with a live for tor days das In front of an enormous open fire eating practically nothing and drinking huge quantities of unna too ton |
