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from the start, and making as much running in 

 the race as may be necessary to draw any of the 

 young ones well out to the top of their pace, so 

 as to get them thoroughly beat before they come 

 too near home ; otherwise the latter would, on ap- 

 proaching the winning-post, have enough left in 

 them to make the last run, and go in and win. 

 Now, to enable the old ones to make the running 

 above described, it may be necessary to draw 

 some of them rather fine, that their flesh may 

 not fatigue them in running of long lengths. If 

 the training-groom finds that his horses are not 

 likely to suffer, either locally or constitutionally, 

 from the work he may be giving them, and that 

 they keep training on, that is, if he finds that 

 his horses can go faster and stay longer at the 

 pace by being drawn fine, the trainer will be 

 right in stripping them of their superfluous flesh, 

 still bearing in mind the circumstances which 

 have already been noticed, viz. that his horses 

 feed well, and go cheerfully to their work, 

 that they are cool and clean on their legs, and 

 sound on their feet. The hints here given as to 

 the feeding and working of horses are all of 

 great importance ; if there be any deviation from 

 any one of them, the animal's bodily health or 

 soundness of his limbs will suffer more or less. By 



