CHAPTER IV. 



PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS WITH WHICH THE READER 

 SHOULD MAKE HIMSELF THOROUGHLY ACQUAINTED, 

 PREVIOUSLY TO HIS COMMENCING THE TRAINING 

 OF HORSES TO RUN. 



In speaking of the properties race horses should 

 possess, and the state they should be in previous 

 to their being put into training — The principal 

 requisites to be noticed in the animal are, that 

 he should have good blood, good speed, and good 

 temper ; if he is deficient in any one of the above 

 very essential qualities, there is but little depend- 

 ance to be placed on him, as a race horse, when 

 running. It may be almost unnecessary to ob- 

 serve, that a race horse should not have, previous 

 to his going into training, the least tendency to 

 unsoundness, either local or constitutional, as that 



