118 ON PHYSIC. 



Before I proceed further, it may be advisable for 

 me to observe, that should a horse of strong constitu- 

 tion meet with an accident, and seriously strain or 

 injure the tendons of his leg, he may as well be imme- 

 diately put out of training, for it is more than a hun- 

 dred to one, that a leg, thus injured, can ever be suffi- 

 ciently recovered by any sort of means, so as to get such 

 work into a strong-constitutioned horse, as to enable 

 him to run with other race-horses. 



I shall now proceed to treat of the physicking of 

 race-horses more generally, commencing with those 

 which are sound and in health. Such of them with 

 strong constitutions, as may have become stale in 

 themselves, and stale on their legs, or their legs being 

 a little swollen from travelling and running during the 

 summer, I shall not consider as being unhealthy. 

 Others which I shall have occasion to mention, as 

 young ones and light ones, will require but little 

 physic ; the former will not become stale until they 

 have been some time in training, although their consti- 

 tutions may be strong ; and the latter are still less 

 subject to this sort of thing, in consequence of their 

 not being able to stand such work as would occasion it. 



With the approach of autumn, the racing season 

 concludes. Some meetings, however, in diffeient parts 

 of the country, are over much earlier than others ; and 

 when race-horses are supposed to have done running 

 for the season, and have returned to their home stables 

 to winter, such of them as may be allowed by their 

 owners to remain under the care of public training 



