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their mouths and manner of running, will be the 

 means of preventing their breaking way, and over- 

 marking or otherwise abusing themselves in their 

 sweats, trials, or races. 



In order further to instruct the boy in riding, let us 

 suppose, by way of example, half a dozen horses 

 of different ages under the care of one groom, to 

 have arrived at any place where a meeting is to be 

 held, a fortnight or three weeks prior to such meeting, 

 at which the horses have to run over a two-mile round 

 course. It is not customary for horses to leave the 

 ground on which they may have been training so long 

 previous to a meeting taking place. It is only usual, 

 on such occasions, for the horses to take the last sweat 

 on a course they have not run over. The object, 

 however, for having the horses brought to a round 

 course so long before running, is not only to shew the 

 old horses the course, but principally to teach the 

 young ones to turn upon it, as also to instruct the 

 young boy whom I am teaching to ride, how to make 

 a difficult turn, or, what used to be more commonly 

 called, '^ running for the turn," which is a sort of 

 thing horses as well as boys may be practised in when 

 are sweating over a round course, in preference to any 

 other way. 



To arrange this matter properly, previous to the 

 horses going out to sweat, the groom, if he is a good 

 judge, puts the best riding boys on the young ones, 

 to teach and regulate^ them judiciously at the turns. 

 Those boys who ride moderately well will do on the 



