152 TRAINING. 



confounded little muzzle : when the muzzle is 

 required, let it always be of the shape and size 

 before directed. 



Near one-fourth of those that are put in 

 training, are never brought to the post, and no 

 wonder: the very stable management of many 

 is radically bad ; too much attention is paid 

 to trifles, and the essentials, the very life of 

 training, neglected. Some are over-physicked 

 and over-fed, and then over-physicked again ; 

 the bowels, of course, get out of order; the 

 stamina are weakened ; and the legs, as a natural 

 consequence, fail : others are over-clothed or over- 

 sweated ; and almost all, over-stabled. Shutting 

 the stable-doors close in India can only have one 

 advantage, and that is, nobody can then be aware 

 of the nonsense that goes forward within. How 

 often does training commence on the slight, and 

 perhaps delicately- constitutioned Arab, with two 

 drastic doses of physic ? Before two months are 

 passed over, the bowels become greatly deranged, 

 and the legs bunged : it is then declared, he 

 (which ought to signify the trainer) " went all 

 wrong ;" and this wrong, or rather wronged horse, 

 has to be physicked again, and laid up in bandages 

 for a month, and perhaps blistered, before he can 

 be got rid of. Sometimes a sturdy animal will 

 stand a great deal of mismanagement, and yet ap- 



