The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-11-21
HOW JOCKEYS TRAIN.
The Work They Undergo In Knocking
Down Their Weight.
A Jock Wh0 Could Net Ride I'm an
Important Race on Account
Of Eating Dinner.

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racegoers who wildly applaud Q successful
jockey after q brilliant piece Of work in
the saddle there are very few who under
stand, or, understanding, realize fully the
great privation and self-denial q success
iul jockey Of the middle'weight class
must practice In order to keep at the
weight which will secure for him the
greatest amount Of patronage. This bat
tie Of the flesh Is iAcessant and lasts for
almost eight months Of every year, and
those who imagine that men like Nc
LauGhlin, Fitzpatrick, Hayward, Mur-
ply and Garrison do not earn their money
should try reducing their natural weight
from twenty to thirty pounds, and keeping
It there for period Of six months or so.
James Mclaughlin, who is now about
through riding, this being his last season
In the saddle, and who does not ride less
than 1875 pounds ct present, has had q
greater struggle than any Of the other
jockeys, during late years. When In the
employ Of the Dwyer Brothers, In whose
red and blue colors he achieved his great
est tIiumphs, he was under contract to
ride at ll2 pounds. and frequently got
down as low as ITO. This be did not find
q very hard task until he had reached his
majority, when, as his frame grew larger
and heavier, he was compelled to train
down finer and get rid Of corresponding
amount Of adipose tissue. Year by year
his labors became more and more severe,
until his pinched face and sunken eyes
were sufficient TO excite the compassion
Of even those who did not know Of the
suferings he was enduring. Last winter
nature added few more pounds Of bone
to McLaughlin's frame, and last spring
when he had been reducing he found that
all his old time tactics were Of no avail.
He could not reach the ia pounds he had
contracted to ride at for the Chicago
stable, and realizing that he would never
be able to get below l25 pounds again and
be strong, he determined to eschew riding
and follow in the footsteps Of Matt Byrnes,
Charity Littlefeld, Jimmy Rowe, Billy
Lakeland, Frank McCabe and other old
timera. and when Mr.. Pierre Iorillard
apnroacbed him with a view of obtaining
bis services AZ trainer and overseer IN
general Of the horse department at Ran
coCas the pripce Of iockevs and one Of
the moat ponular and trustwortbv riders
that ever sported silk or pressed the sides
Of q thoroughbred in America, accepted,
and next year he will be found behind
the cherry and black councelling George
Taylor, who will be first Jockey for and
patron Of Tuxedo,
Gentlemen and ladies in every walk Of
life are troubled by the dread and burden
Of adipose, and one often hears the query:
"How shall reduce my weight?" Ma
irons sigh for the waist Of their girlhood,
and the man Of middle age would give
good deal IL be could run upstairs without
becoming very warm and out Of breath.
They know that the kind Of food they eat
and the drinking they do are not con-
duciye to leanness, and there are few
who have not tried at least one remedy
for their bugaboo. Listen to the way
Mclaughlin trained when riding daily.
The Jockey who IL under engagement for
the balance Of the season to ride for Mr..
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Thursday.
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