94 THE RACING WORLD 



" familiarity breeds contempt." The Americans 

 must bring up their horses very quietly, or is it 

 the long sea voyage that makes them so docile in 

 the stable ? If one goes round a stud of high- 

 class American horses, as I have several times 

 been round those at Newmarket, one cannot help 

 being struck w^ith their extreme quietness. You 

 can handle them as you like — their gentleness is 

 remarkable. 



Now as to my ideas as to the treatment of 

 stallions. If possible they should be ridden out at 

 exercise every day and kept in hard muscular 

 condition ; it makes them healthy and quiet, and 

 they are more likely to breed better foals and more 

 of them than those that are kept fat. If they 

 cannot be ridden for any reason — as, for instance, 

 because of unsoundness caused by accident, as was 

 the case with Rightaway whom I had for some 

 seasons — let them be exercised for two or three 

 hours daily ; or, better still, if you have the con- 

 venience turn them out in a large paddock, as 

 is done with Orme, and several others to my 

 knowledge ; but every breeder has not a suitable 

 paddock for this purpose. Orme has one fenced in 

 by a high wall. 



Another theory which I hold is that foals should 

 not be brought into the world too early. This is 



