remain thus, as long as he can, which usually will not be more than ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. During this time, the heavy oppressed feeling about the heart is most trying.

After the rugs and clothes are taken off, the man should be quickly dried, and then have a warm bath, and after that he may have a cold douche if his liver be in good order. He should not dress till he is thoroughly cool, and ought to forbear taking anything to drink as long as he possibly can after a sweat, for the more heated the body is, the more rapidly will it absorb fluid.

If a man has to sweat often, instead of using waistcoats he should have a thick flannel jacket, made, for the purpose, to fit tight over the flannel shirts, and to button high and close under the chin.

If a man has hacks to ride, and is unable to walk, he can take a sweat on horseback by putting on clothes as before, and then going for a sharp ride; but this, though pleasanter, will not be as effective practice as walking.

A sweat, like that I have described, will take from 4 to 6 lbs. off an ordinary man, provided there be little or no wind, which most materially prevents perspiration. When taking a sweat in this country, one should avoid the sun as much as possible, for few things tend to make one so nervous, as hard exercise when exposed to its influence. Having one's nerves in good order is of far more consequence than being able to get the exact weight. This particularly applies to men who ride their own horses, for jockeys have little option in the

matter, owners being often foolishly exacting on this point. I am quite certain that on the flat a jockey can ride quite 5 lbs. better when he is fit and well, than he can when he is weak from wasting, while in steeplechasing the difference is one of stones and not of pounds.

A lamp bath is often taken instead of a regular sweat, if the man in training be lazy, or not able to walk well. It is arranged thus: Three or four small saucers full of oil with lighted cotton wicks in them, are placed under a chair on which the man sits, care being taken that a couple of thick doubled towels are put under him. He should have no clothes on, but should have several rugs and blankets, wrapped round the chair and himself, and brought tight under it, so that the heated air may not escape. A waterproof sheet considerably assists this operation. A little practice is required to teach one how to get the rugs and blankets fixed. If the hot air be properly kept in, the person taking this bath will break out into a profuse perspiration in about ten minutes, while this may be continued for an hour, which will be about the limit that most men can bear.

A lamp bath will take little more than half the weight off that a regular sweat will do, for its action is confined to the pores of the skin alone, while in the other there is a general waste of the body, the lungs aiding very largely in carrying off the debris. By the quickened breathing disintegrated tissue is rapidly got rid of, and pure blood is sent to the heart, and from it to the system generally. In a lamp bath, the action of the heart, after a short time, becomes tumultuous and the breathing laboured, on account of the lungs being

gorged with insufficiently aerated blood, while, if this be continued much further, its action will become more and more feeble, till at last faintness occurs. By persisting in these sweats, the heart is very liable to become permanently injured.

I have described wasting and Banting from a jockey's point of view, though I am well aware how injurious they are to health, which cannot be maintained, under ordinary conditions, without a due proportion of fat or oil, and starch or sugar in the food, along with an adequate supply of fresh vegetables. I would strongly advise any of my readers who, being inclined to put up weight, may wish to keep it permanently down, on no account to Bant, but to take lots of hard exercise, and to substitute for dinner, a light meal consisting of a little cold lean meat and some plain vegetables. This, with an ordinary breakfast at about 11 A. M., and a cup of tea and a slice of toast first thing in the morning, will be enough for any healthy man to keep "fit" on. Beer, butter, stews, and pastry should be avoided.

I need hardly say that, any mode of wasting, however good, must prove injurious if carried to excess or continued for any time. The quicker weight is got off under judicious conditions, and the sooner the system is allowed to return to its healthy normal state, the less strain will it experience from wasting.

The more a man trusts to hard exercise and selfdenial the "fitter" will he be to ride; while Banting, sweats, and physic should only be employed when time is limited, or the amount to be got off is considerable.

A man in training should weigh himself every day to

see how the process of wasting procees. A Salter's spring balance, noting lbs., up to 200lbs. is a cheap and most portable machine.

A man can ride in a light saddle (2 or 21lbs.) a little less than what he will weigh in ordinary clothes.

If a jockey be at all in hard condition, he need allow nothing for wasting during a race on a hot day, for the horse will sweat more into the saddle cloth or pannel than the jockey is likely to lose.

The following is a safe rule to adopt for weighing out before a race. Everything, including the bridle, being in the scales, put lb on the opposite side, and if the jockey can draw his weight with this lb, he is quite safe.

Weighing before a race is called "weighing out," and after a race it is termed "weighing in."

CHAPTER X.

Betting.

LOTTERIES-DOUBLE LOTTERIES-PARI MUTUELS-RACE POOLS.

Lotteries.-The number of tickets and their prices in lotteries vary, though at the principal meetings they are generally fixed at Rs. 100 and Rs. 10 respectively.

The Honorary Secretary of the races, or other person appointed to manage the lotteries, should, on commencing, first write down the tickets taken by single individuals, and then those taken conjointly; the practice being to throw with dice for tickets, the loser paying for them, though both he and the winner of the toss equally share the amount obtained for any horse, which any of their tickets may draw. Not until all the tickets, that can be disposed of conjointly, are written down, should sweeps be allowed to take place, as they are a last resource to fill up a lottery paper: for somehow or other, people will rarely take tickets, either on their own account or conjointly, after sweeps have commenced. A lottery should be made out on a large sheet of foolscap. Generally on the first and part of the second page the tickets are written down. At the end of the second page there is a form for recording the result of the drawing, and on the third, one for showing the debit and credit of each person may be given.

I will now give an illustrative lottery paper for a race