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finews, arifes from their violent and incelTant 

 thumping the hard road, common fenfe will 

 naturally prefcribe moderate and fparing exer- 

 cife, and foft ways ; and whenever you fee a fellow 

 wantonly rattling his trotter over a pavement, 

 you may very fairly prefume, a natural affinity, 

 between the fcull of the jockey, and the materials 

 with which his courfe is ftrewed ; and even if 

 you go fo far as to wifh a happy contact be- 

 tween them, humanity herfelf fhall forgive you. 

 I would even recommend training a trotter on 

 the turf, wherever that advantage can be ob- 

 tained ; far from rendering a hack unfteady in 

 his trot, when he afterwards comes upon the 

 road, he will trot more fteadily for it, the chief 

 reafon for a good trotter flying into his gallop 

 (befide bad jockeyfhip) being the forenefs of 

 his joints and feet. They muft have the beft 

 grooming, and the conftant ufe of a loofe 

 liable. 



To be able to perform fixteen miles in one 

 hour, a horfe muft have fpeed enough to trot a 

 mile in confiderably lefs than three minutes and 

 a quarter. If he be full of meat, and in work, 

 from a fortnight to a month's training is fuffi- 

 cient ; and that by no means in the fevere and 

 rattling way which it is ufually praclifed by our 

 Smithfield jockies, who fometimes contrive to 

 win their match, and lofe their nag. Four 

 miles trotting in the morning, through the laft 



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