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The main object is to give them plenty of time until 

 they are perfectly broke. 



Other gentlemen who have large breeding establish- 

 ments, and who keep in their employ proper persons 

 to make the necessary arrangements in every depart- 

 ment of it, as a stud groom, a colt-breaker, a training- 

 groom, and good riding boys, with other requisites, 

 such as suitable ground near the stables to exercise on, 

 or a park sufficiently large to train horses in, with a 

 two or four mile course in it. Such gentlemen as have 

 on their estates the above-mentioned conveniences, like, 

 as well for the sake of secrecy as for the pleasure and 

 amusement it affords them, to have their horses man- 

 aged at home. Other breeders who have not these 

 conveniences on their premises, are obliged to send the 

 produce of their stock to their own private stables, or 

 to public stables, to be broke, tried, and trained ; and 

 these stables may be, and indeed often are, at a veiy 

 great distance. Under these circumstances, I would 

 advise breeders to have their colts handled or broke in 

 a temporary manner at home ; although they may not 

 have an opportunity of doing this effectually, it may 

 be done to a certain extent by the stud groom, and 

 men on the premises. There will be no necessity for 

 backing them ; it will be found sufficient to put the 

 tackle on them, and have them led out for a week or 

 ten days, on the roads or downs, and now and then 

 lounged. This sort of treatment will bring them tole- 

 rably steady, which is a point worth attending to, prior 

 to their commencing a journey, as there is afterwards 



