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In training different horses, we are princi- 

 pally to be guided by their structure, age, and 

 tempers, which regulate the strength of their 

 mechanical powers, as to action, as well also as 

 their constitutional ones; and just according 

 as any one horse may vary from the other in 

 those respects, so will each horse require a dif- 

 ferent sort of treatment. And, that all those 

 matters, with regard to the training of horses, 

 may be properly carried into effect, it will be 

 necessary for us to explain sufficiently often the 

 different causes and effects, that may arise from 

 the various sorts of treatment we shall bye-and- 

 bye have occasion to adopt in the training of 

 every description of thorough-bred horses. On 

 my first entering the stables as exercise-boy, the 

 system of training horses was not so attentively 

 studied as at the present day. It was too much 

 the custom with grooms to work too many horses 

 together in one class, without their sufficiently 

 discriminating as to how their ages and consti- 

 tutions might vary, as well also as the lengths 

 their horses were to come in their different races ; 

 consequently, some flighty delicate horses lost 

 their tempers, and went off their feed; while 

 others, by being kept too long in strong work, 

 drew too fine, became stale, or, perhaps, got amiss 



