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Following is a list of terms you will hear and read at the spring’s point-to-points and race meetings. Forewarned is forearmed — knowing the language of racing, particularly hunt racing can accentuate the experience.
ALLOWANCE - A manner of weighting the entrants to make the contest fair to all runners. Criteria such as age, horse experience, riders’s experience and previous winnings affect the weight carried by the horse.
APPRENTICE - (also bug rider’) In the old days, a young, fledgling rider literally was apprenticed to a trainer — the rider signed himself on for three years of what was often slave-like labor. For his efforts, the rider was rewarded with the instruction of the trainer in the trade.
The modern definition of apprentice has come to mean simply a rider who has not won a total of 10 jumping races. Until a rider has won one race over fences, he receives an additional allowance of 10 pounds. (This allowance is not honored in handicaps however.)
Until the apprentice has won five jumping races, he continues to receive seven pounds. Up through 10 wins, the rider is allowed five pounds. In the racing program, the allowances are designated by asterisks, or ‘bugs’, hence the name ‘bug-rider.’
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