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at all connected with the subject. The precautionary 

 measures he has given us on horses being brought 

 from a state of nature into an artificial one, are, I 

 think, very proper, and should, at all times, be care- 

 fully attended to. The principle which the author has 

 laid down for our guidance, namely, — " that as horses 

 feed and drink, so should their work be regulated," is, 

 to a certain extent, correct, and is commonly known to 

 all men connected with the turf, and indeed to most 

 other men wdio keep horses. But, without some more 

 practical or definite rules, it would be next to an 

 impossibility for any person to train race-horses so 

 as to bring them in a fit state to run with horses 

 trained by regular training grooms. Yet this is what 

 the author, in his first volume (page 248), affirms can 

 be done. However, those gentlemen who are inclined 

 to train horses by his rules and regulations, may 

 make the trial ; but I cannot help thinking, that, 

 should their horses be valuable ones, and heavily 

 engaged, they would be likely to pay rather dear for 

 such experiment. 



But to return again to grooms. It is very well un- 

 derstood that the word " groom " is the name applied 

 to a man who looks after horses which are rode by 

 their owners for pleasure ; and if a man be sober, 

 honest, attentive to his business, and clean in his 

 person, one groom is considered, by the greater part of 

 the public, just as good as another. This conclusion 

 is erroneous; for, the knowledge which any one of 

 them may possess in a greater degree than another, as 



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