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to w alk out, it would not only be advisable, but more 

 sale and convenient to lay (as is the custom) some 

 long dung in the front yard, and let them walk there 

 for the necessary period every day during the severity 

 of the weather. 



The ground the horses take their gallops on, is 

 called the gallop ; that is to say, when horses in train- 

 ing are galloping on downs, they are said to be going 

 up the gallop ; and as I have already mentioned, the 

 greater the variety of ground such downs will afford 

 for forming these different gallops, the greater will be 

 the advantages in favor of the horses, if the training 

 groom is a good judge, and knows well how to vary 

 the working of his horses, as circumstances may 

 require. 



A groom, in selecting ground for horses to take 

 their gallops on, should, as I have already noticed, 

 endeavour to get it with as few sudden rises and falls 

 in it as possible, particularly in going off in the gallop. 

 For the first four or five hundred yards it should be 

 level, but after this length, it should gradually rise the 

 whole of the way home, or where the horses pull up 

 should be a moderate sort of a hill. 



The length of gallops for different horses varies 

 occasionally. There are two lengths in general use ; 

 but as these lengths are at times deviated from, I shall 

 here give four, namely, — half a mile — three quarters of 

 a mile — a mile and a quarter — and a mile and a half. 

 Generally speaking, the two middle lengths are in 

 most frequent use, as there are few horses so delicate 



