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CHAPTER VI. 

 Practical Training. 



EEMARKS ON EACE HORSES IN INDIA TRAINING QUARTERS GENERAL 

 RULES FOR WORK DURING TRAINING DETAIL OF WORK SWEAT- 

 ING TRAINING BY SHORT REPEATED GALLOPS TRIALS TRAIN- 

 ING PONIES SETTING TREATMENT AFTER RUNNING RACE 

 HORSES TRAVELLING BY RAIL. 



IT is an old and true turf maxim, that the better bred 

 a horse is, the more training will he stand. In this 

 country, blood is but an uncertain guide to the trainer, 

 for almost all our horses, with but few exceptions, are 

 " cocktails " in the strict English sense of the word. A 

 few of our best Walers are thorough bred in the loose 

 colonial acceptation of the term. At the same time, 

 I must admit that the type of horse Australia sends 

 us, is improving yearly in quality and breeding, and 

 that cases of giving " salt water pedigrees " are becom- 

 ing of rare occurrence. 



The subject of pure blood and high caste in the 

 Arab is one on which I have never been able to 

 gain any exact information, nor do I think that any 

 distinct rules, as to external appearance, can be laid 

 down, that would not equally apply to any other breed 

 of horses intended to gallop fast, and " stay," with a fair 

 weight up. Many Arabs, which are most unlikely shaped, 

 to our eyes, often turn out the best. These horses take a 

 long time to mature, while their powers rarely become 



