176 ^TRAINlNa OF MEN AND ANIMALS. 



II. 



Abridged Extracts relatiu}^ to the means used to reduce 

 the weight of Horse Jockics and the methods of Train" 

 ing Horses, so as to augnwnt their Strength, Wind^ 

 and Speed. From Sir John Sinclair's Pamphlet on 

 Athletic Exercises f 



IR Charles Bunbury tratisnnttcd a letter from W. S. 

 Rickword, Esq. who after mejitioniiig some of the diffi- 

 culties of collecting information from many of the persons 

 of the class who practise the arts in questionj proceeds 

 to give the following observations, p. 65. 

 Physic is not " Physic of no kind is used now, so common as it used 



much used in to be, either in wasting men to ride, or in training them to 

 training men .,. ,. . i. i- i 



or horses. puguistic engagements, or extraordmary muscular exer- 



tions of any kind. The number of questions put by this 

 author might be compressed into a very few ; like sum- 

 moning and capitulating commanders of armed men, many 

 of the articles are said to be answered in the foregoing, 

 number so and so, as the numerous questions* (made iise 

 of in this pamphlet) are (in a great degree) by the fol- 

 lowing general observations. The good effects of air, ex- 

 ercise, and aliment, to animal bodies, to the attainment of 

 feeding not health, is tolerably well known. No general rule can 

 subject to any ^^ i^j^j ^^^^.^ as to the mode of feedinir ; the quantity of 

 general rule. . ^, ^. . j x u -xi. 



exercise, or the tmic required, to bring either man or 



horse to perform the utmost he is capable of doing : the 

 conformation, and idiosyncrasy of the body of each ani- 

 mal, the trainer should make himself acquainted with ; 

 men and horses diil'er in constitutions, as in dispositions. 

 The great art amongst trainers is, or should be, to disco- 

 ver what quantity of exercise, &c. a horse will take to 

 bring him to, and keep him at his best. As to physic, it 

 is my opinion, that it is much too generally in use amongst 

 racing horses in particular ; but, upon that subject, I 

 have more to say than is convenient for me to advance at 

 Exercise, air present. More depends, far more, on exercise than is 



and thorough generally believed, even at this period, though the benefit 



j^roomniG: re- . ,, . , j ... i . , 



<iuired by i^ pretty well known and admitted ; yet, by no means 



horses. 



* See our Journal 



sufficiently ; 



