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slippery going down the hill on the far side. How- 

 ever, if an owner intends running his horses at 

 Dehra, he ought to give them at least a month's work 

 there. 



The course suits horses with high action, which 

 enables them to climb the hill far easier than those that 

 go lower. Another point to be considered is that, a 

 horse must have good hocks to go up a hill well. 



Perhaps, the best thing to do with valuable horses 

 is to send them at the close of the racing season (the 

 end of March) to Dehra Doon, where, after a month or 

 six weeks' rest, they may be hacked about with a light 

 weight up, and got into good working order, before 

 being put into regular training. In this way they may 

 be healthier and fresher than had they remained in the 

 plains. In point of fact, horses can be galloped much 

 earlier in the plains than at Dehra, for the course there 

 becomes very hard in the hot weather, while during the 

 rains it is anything but safe going, until after August, 

 and even then is very dangerous for youngsters that are 

 apt to sprawl about. 



I think the practice of sending horses, which have 

 spent the hot weather and rains in the plains, as late in 

 the year as September, to Dehra, is accompanied by 

 some risk, as the nights there are then getting cold 

 especially towards the end of that month and horses, 

 whose livers are more or less deranged by the effects 

 of the preceding hot weather, are. very liable to get 

 congestion of that organ from the sudden change of 

 climate, (see Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners, page 

 249.) If an owner intends sending his horses to Dehra, 



