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stand or not. If you see any symptoms of their getting 

 worse, particularly if the back tendon becomes bowed, 

 throw him up at once, soak his legs in bran tea, take his 

 feed away gradually, and let him graze an hour every day. 

 In sweating him day after to-morrow, do not drive any 

 further after the hair has become moistened, relying on 

 the additional clothing to give a free flow of perspiration. 



PUPIL. Shall I speed him on the outside of the track ? 

 Would not that be safer for him to go fast on, as well as 

 slow ? 



PBECEPTOR. It would : though, as I want to see how 

 he handles himself, you can pull him to the inside when 

 ready to let him speed. A hundred yards will be far 

 enough. It is as I expected. His way of going is very 

 severe on the legs. He also strides long, and as his action 

 is very high, he necessarily throws a heavier weight on 

 them than if he went lower. We will have him shod with 

 very light shoes, to lessen, as much as we can, this super- 

 abundant action of the knee. You had better work him 

 entirely on the outside of the track, varying that with 

 plenty of road work, selecting the sandy one that leads to 

 the cove. His speed has not been overrated, as he cer- 

 tainly went very fast in the short brush. What a pity 

 that he has not such limbs as the Falcon and his colts 

 have! To undergo the battering the hard tracks give, 

 those iron, tendinous ones are the sort. I have heard 

 people argue that large bone is a sine qua non in a trotter. 

 Now, Clipper has bone enough, but there is not correspond- 

 ing development of tendon. Nine horses in ten that give 

 way in their legs have bone enough, but the tendons are 

 small. 



PUPIL. In a conversation we held some time ago, you 

 told me how a horse trotted and ran that is, how the 

 legs were moved at these gaits. I have known a man 

 claim that a trotter required more strength in the fore 



