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SECTION XX. 



BREEDING — INSTANCES OF HORSES AND MARES RACING DURING THEIR 



BREEDING SEASON ABORTION FREQUENT ACCIDENTS CARE OF THE 



STALLION — CHOICE OF A RACER VALID EXCEPTION TO THE CUSTOM 



OF EARLY TRAINING THE MOST CONSIDERABLE BREEDERS OF RACE 



HORSES TRAINING METHOD OF FORMER TIMES GREAT SUPERIORITY 



OF PRESENT PRACTICE, YET NEED OF FARTHER REFORM SWEATS AND 



PURGES NECESSARY THE HARDY HORSE SAMUEL CHIFNEY — EXTRACTS 



FROM GENIUS GENUINE — STARVATION PLAN OF TRAINING. 



IN the common course, breeding and racing are preserved as distinct 

 branches of the business of the turf, the stallion and mare being seldom 

 used for breeding, until their services as racers are at an end ; or they 

 commence with breeding, and thenceforth are never trained. This, 

 considering all circumstances, is perhaps the wisest course ; the season 

 of a Race-horse's perfection, with respect to speed, being very short and 

 fleeting, and the aged Horse being always loaded with additional 

 weight. This course is, however, by no means indispensable, and in 

 former days, more indeed than of late, was frequently broken through. 

 Horses covered during the season in which they raced, and many, both 

 Horses and mares, were not trained, until alter they had been used in 

 the breeding stud. Babram served thirty-thuee mares, and won many 

 plates during the same season. The famous Vintner mare, Molly Long- 

 legs, and many others, were brood mares, before they were trained. 

 The old squirt mare, the best breeder upon record, was never trained. 

 The dam of Ringoozle won a plate whilst carrying him. Pratt's Maiden, 

 a daughter of the Old Squirt Mare, was covered by King Herod, and 

 raced the same season ; the produce was the dam of the Earl of Egre- 

 mont's celebrated Gohanna. It is to be presumed, Mr. Pratt judged 

 that Maiden had not stood by the Horse, since to put a mare to such 



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