50 GALLOPING PRACTICE — WHERE NECESSARY. 



1. If he has been on the turf and in training. 



2. If he has never raced but has been hunted. 



3. If he has only been hacked. 



4. If he has only been broken and has done no 

 severe work of any kind. 



We must of course take it for granted that the 

 horse is sound in limb at any rate, and that, whatever 

 ailments of the respiratory organs he may be afflicted 

 with, that they do not interfere with his running very 

 materially, for it must be understood that no treatment 

 can give new legs or new organs of respiration ; but 

 all we can hope to do will be to alter and improve the 

 present and not to generate a new system. 



The only reason for which I have thought it neces- 

 sary to separate the training of horses into four dif- 

 ferent classes is that the amount of practice required 

 will not be the same in either case ; though the same con- 

 dition of body will be required in all. 



1. Then the horse that has been raced. Do not 

 imagine that because he has been raced he can race 

 now, for he may be utterly out of condition for such a 

 purpose ; nevertheless this will not be nearly so diffi- 

 cult as the other three cases with which we have to 

 deal ; since the amount of galloping practice will be 

 comparatively slight, and the time for getting the horse 

 fit consequently more limited. All we shall have to 

 do will be to reduce his body to a sufficient leanness 

 and to increase the bulk and firmness of his muscles, 

 to effect which two principles must be fully understood 

 and acted upon. First, that slow and long work is 



