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Stt>at Horses stand a strong Preparation. — State of the Legs to be watched. 

 — Idlewild and Lady Palmer. — No Device a Substitute for Work. — 

 Teu-mUe Preparatioc. — A steady rating Capacity wanted. — The Prep- 

 aration to be Long. — The Feed to be Strong. — Effects of the Work 

 to be watched. — The Trials. — Management of the Race. — The Races 

 of Kentucky Prince and Hero the Pacer, 



IT will have been gathered from what I have said, that, 

 even when good condition has been attained, there will 

 still be a great difference in the performance of horses as 

 soon as the distance they are required to go is long ; and 

 that, in getting a whole stable of horses into fix to trot 

 races, there will seldom be two whose treatment during 

 their preparation ought to be the same. The natural game 

 and stout horse will stand a stronger preparation, and may 

 be relied on for a greater performance than another will 

 ever be capable of, with all the aid that the trainer can 

 give him, provided the legs of the former stand. There is 

 a. small class of trotting-horses, and of thoroughbred run- 

 ning-horses, too, who require an immense amount of work 

 to get them fit to do their best, and who cannot be relied on 

 to do any thing like their best without it. The training of 

 these, seeing that they can hardly have too much worl^ 

 judiciously given, for tlieir constitution, would be much 

 8ira])lified, if it were not for the danger that their legs and 

 feet may give out, while their appetite and general health 

 remain good. In preparing them the state of the legs must 

 be particularly watched; and if any weak or inflammatory 

 symptoms manifest themselves under the severe work which 

 is necessary to bring them to the wiry condition in which 



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