72 GALLOPING PRACTICE REQUIRED. 



and it is fair to conclude that that deterioration icas due 

 in a great measure to the severity of training which he 

 had undergone. 



6 As with the mind, so with the body, undue and pro- 

 longed exertion must end in depression of -power. In the 

 process of the physical education of the young, in the 

 training of our recruits, or in the sports of the athlete, 

 the case of Heenan suggests a striking commentary of 

 great interest in a physiological point of view. 



( Whilst exercise, properly so called, tends to develop- 

 ment and health, excessive exertion produces debility 

 and decay. In these times of over-excitement and 

 over-competition in the race of life, the case we now put 

 on record may be studied with advantage.' 



There will be no necessity for me to enter into the 

 details of the daily training required for those horses 

 which have not raced, nor undergone much galloping 

 practice previously to being put into training, further 

 than to say, that instead of being put through mere 

 walking exercise they will have to go through alter- 

 nate walks and spins, the same as the two and the 

 three-year old, for at least two months, at the expira- 

 tion of which they will require long slow gallops of 

 three or four miles, at three-quarter speed, twice in 

 every week for a month, so as to ensure their stride 

 being even and measured, without which no horse can 

 stay over a long course. For another six weeks 

 they may enter on precisely the same work as that re- 

 commended for training the horse that has previously 

 been raced. By this it will be seen that it will take 



