Goffman disclosed how the transformative capacity of a total institution could be usurped by social forces internal to the institution. This study of apprentice jockey training produces similar results, yet in this study the forces undermining the total institution are external to this total institution. The paper is in three parts: first, it documents how, within the confines of the stable, the young recruit adopts equine, occupational and physical identities of a jockey; second, it records the subversion of the stable as a total institution by the external social, organizational, legislative change; and third, it captures the emergence of a new total institution based not in the stable but within centralized learning institutions.
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