V. 



Actual Training of the Three-year-old. No Physic and no Sweat at first. 

 Danger of " Overmarking." Strong Feed of Oats and Hay. Bran- 

 Mashes. Kubbing the Legs. Full supply of Water. Management 

 before and in the Eace. Strains likely to stand Early Training. The 

 Abdallahs. 



HAYING given my views as to the prudence of train- 

 ing a three-year-old colt for a race, I shall now make 

 some remarks upon the course advisable to be followed 

 where the match has been made and the race is to come off. 

 The colt may have been kept in the stable all the winter, 

 or he may have had the run of a lot on fine days, with a loose 

 box at night. In either case, his work in the spring is to be 

 exactly like that which he was called on to do in the fall 

 of his two-year-old stage, beginning very gently, and tak- 

 ing care' never to keep him so long at it as to fret and 

 discourage him. ~No physic is required, nor is any sweat 

 demanded to begin with. It is to be remembered that the 

 growing animal does not make internal fat like an old horse, 

 and that the system has not attained the firmness and hard- 

 ness which will bear scraping and squeezing to be drawn 

 fine. If a colt is stripped of his fat and reduced in flesh as 

 old horses are, his growth is stopped, and the muscular 

 development that is now in process is interfered with to the 

 lasting disadvantage of the animal. Therefore, the utmost 

 caution is required in dealing with them ; and the effect of 

 the work is to be carefully watched from day to day by the 

 person having them in charge. Before the work is begun 

 at all, it must be apparent that the colt is full of health, and 



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