210 TRAINING AND RACING. 



ing sun is well up. A sweat, however, should never be 

 given in the evening, if it can possibly be avoided. 



Before sending a horse a gallop, always look at his 

 legs and feet, and if there be anything wrong, or the 

 slightest heat present, send him back to his stable. As a 

 rule, unless a horse, that is suffering from some injury, 

 goes actually lame, a syce will rarely inform his master 

 of the accident. 



Give a horse always a preliminary canter before send- 

 ing him a sharp gallop. 



The heavier topped a horse is, especially if he have a 

 thick neck and coarse shoulders, the more careful should 

 the trainer be about giving him fast work, particularly 

 down any incline, such as there is at Dehra on the far 

 side of the course. 



Do not keep horses too long on hard food, and never 

 be afraid of giving them a bunch of lucern, or a few 

 carrots. 



If a horse, in strong work, begins to leave much of 

 his corn untouched, say, anything over half a pound at 

 each feed, the chances are that he is getting too much 

 work, which should be lessened, or altogether stopped, as 

 the case may require, and he should have two or three 

 bran mashes at successive feeding hours, some green 

 meat, or even an alterative ball, if he be at all " over- 

 marked." The time a horse takes to eat his allowance of 

 corn may be used as a measure of his appetite. Thus, 

 say that a certain horse, who after work usually con- 

 sumes his morning feed of 4ft>s. in 25 minutes, takes on 

 a particular day half an hour to get through the same 

 amount, the owner may reasonably conclude that he is 



