THE TURF. 
he has an animal of this description under his care, for a 
change may take place in him in a night, which, like a 
frost over the blossoms, will blast all hopes of his success. 
The immense value, again, which a very promising colt 
now attains in the market adds greatly to the charge 
over him ; and much credit is due to the trainer who 
brings him well through his engagements, whether he 
be a winner or not. 
The treatment of the seasoned race-horse is com- 
paratively easy and straightforward, with the exception 
of such as are very difficult to keep in place, by reason 
of constitutional peculiarities. Those which have been 
at work are thus treated, we mean when the season is 
concluded : by indulgence in their exercise they are 
suffered to gather flesh, or become "lusty," as the term 
is, to enable them the better to endure their physic ; but, 
in addition to two hours' walking exercise, they must 
have a gentle gallop, to keep them quiet. If frost sets 
in, they are walked and trotted in a paddock upon litter, 
it being considered dangerous to take them at that time 
from home. When the weather is favourable, they 
commence a course of physic, consisting of perhaps three 
doses, at an interval of about eight days between each. 
A vast alteration has taken place in the strength of the 
doses given, and, consequently, accidents from physic 
now more rarely occur. Eight drachms of Barbadoes 
aloes form the largest dose at present given to aged 
horses, with six to four-year olds, five to three-year olds, 
four to two-year olds, and from two to three to yearlings ; 
