ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses three themes in more detail: learning; gender, class and power; and capitals. The field of power itself is a configuration of economic, cultural, symbolic and physical capitals which structure the way individuals, for instance working-class men and women, and organizations, such as the Jockey Club, relate to each other. Male apprentice jockeys are patronized more than female apprentices. The chapter shows that the person with the most power in a racing yard is the trainer, and it is the trainer who is at the top of the employment hierarchy typically seen in a racing yard. It suggests that women in the racing field embody elements of both masculinity and femininity rather than embodying a completely 'masculine' habitus. For working-class women it contains elements of masculinity and femininity which must be used according to the situation the woman finds herself in, although the embodied habitus creates visible contradictions. Women's bodies are both 'too feminine' and 'too masculine'.
