ON BREAKING RACING COLTS. 371 



colt's not being gradually and properly trained to the 

 use of the spurs. 



As by this time we may fairly presume that their 

 mouths are sufficiently sensible to the pressure of the 

 last mentioned description of bit, and that their heads, 

 when they are rode, are in proper place, plain snaffles 

 or pelhams, or any sort of bridle, as occasion may 

 require, may be put on them, and they may now be 

 taken every day on the downs to exercise. Colts, 

 breaking at Newmarket, should often be walked about 

 on the flat among the different courses, and at times 

 they should be made to leave each pother and walk 

 quietly away to different parts of the downs to exer- 

 cise by themselves. It is highly necessary to accus- 

 tom them thus early to leave each other, with a view 

 more easily to preserve the tempers of the light, 

 flighty, or delicate horses or mares, as in training it is 

 at times necessary to change their system. 



When they are leaving the downs, they should be 

 walked home, following each other in line, up the 

 Cambridge hill and along by the side of the rails, and 

 when they have gone one hundred yards past the 

 weighing stand at the end of the B. C. it may be as 

 well to pull them up and walk them back again to the 

 weighing stand, and let them remain there a few 

 minutes. At other times, they may be brought home 

 across the flat, passing the weighing stand at the turn 

 of the lands ; and at the distance of one hundred yards 

 from it, they may be pulled up and walked back again 

 to the stand. The riders mav there dismount, and 



