52 PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



tering of them. A training-groom must never, 

 ^therefore, be led astray about the condition of his 

 horses by the opinion of others. Different horses 

 will vary, more or less, in appearance from the 

 ones we have just described; yet, notwithstand- 

 ing horses may more or less differ from each 

 other in those respects, as some of them being 

 rather coarser in their carcasses, and having more 

 flesh on them, still these horses may be in a fit 

 state to run. In short, it will not do to train 

 horses, as men would build houses, by fancy, or 

 by rule ; to adopt such modes of treatment would 

 destroy them. As we have already noticed their 

 ages, their constitutions, and the lengths they have 

 to run, must be separately and duly considered; 

 and according as those circumstances may vary, 

 so must each horse be differently treated. 



The horses which are likely to be abused by too 

 much work are the five and six year olds, of strong 

 constitutions. Such of these as may have gone 

 somewhat off their speed for the running of short 

 lengths, are mostly engaged to run the longer 

 ones, as those of two and four miles, for some 

 of his Majesty's plates; and it sometimes hap- 

 pens, that such horses have no chance to win 

 but by cutting out the work, that is, by going off 



