42 PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



of any thing approaching to a chronic affection 

 of the lungs, which may occasion even a trifling 

 cough; nor must there be the slightest possible 

 disease or enlargement of any of the tendons of 

 the legs, or ligaments of the joints; and this 

 more particularly holds good in the training of a 

 gluttonous sort of horse. To bring such horse 

 to post with any thing about him as above stated, 

 would be throwing money away. 



Let us next notice the state our horses should 

 be in as to flesh. Speaking first of the young- 

 ones, either as yearlings or two year olds — if 

 they have been paid proper attention to dur- 

 ing the time of their being in their paddocks, 

 they will, on leaving them, be sound, lusty, and 

 healthy; and this is the state they should be in 

 after being broke, previous to their going into 

 training; and it is, also, this same state that all 

 race horses, of all ages, and of all different con- 

 stitutions, should be in, while out of training, or 

 when they are put into training after their hav- 

 ing been laid by for the winter; that is, they 

 should have what is commonly called a " good bit 

 of flesh " upon them ; and we must be very care- 

 ful how we remove the superfluous flesh from the 

 surface of the bodies of all horses in training. 



