14 ON THE FORMATION OF 



a short close-made race horse is, in running, handy 

 at his turns, and, as I have ah'cady noticed, he is 

 generally a pretty good one under high weights 

 over a small round cock-pit course; but this de- 

 scription of course and sort of running is not now 

 so much practised as formerly, or rather, it is a 

 sort of racing that does not exactly suit long-strid- 

 ing horses, as most of those are that run at New- 

 market. Another thing is, that horses with large 

 carcasses are mostly great gluttons ; they put up 

 flesh very rapidly, and are very difficult and trou- 

 blesome to train, in consequence of their consti- 

 tutions being too strong, or proportionably too 

 much for their feet and legs. — Such horses not 

 only seldom remain long in training, but they 

 cannot be kept long in condition, without their 

 becoming stale in themselves, as also on their 

 legs, and those are my reasons for objecting to 

 very large carcassed horses ; yet, I do not wish 

 horses to be what is termed " tucked up," or 

 waspish in their carcasses. I like a horse's car- 

 cass to be in the medium, that is, it should be 

 straight and handsome from behind the girths of 

 his saddle ; and what will make up sufficiently well, 

 and give him sufficient strength of constitution, is 

 the well formation of the parts already noticed, 

 as the chest, the loins, and the fundament. 



