62 TREATMENT OF HORSES 



steady head lads^ with a good set of riding boys : 

 and whether a large establishment of this kind 

 is to be carried on at Newmarket, or Epsom, 

 or at any of the training establishments in the 

 north, is of no consequence. Bye-and-bye I will 

 point out the difference to be observed between 

 the training of horses in the north, and the train- 

 ing them in the south. I will just here remark, 

 that, when noblemen or gentlemen send their 

 race horses to a public training stable, and do 

 not send their own groom with them, it will 

 of course be necessary to put the public trainer 

 in possession of what information they can, with 

 regard to either the good or bad properties 

 their horses may possess. It is true, the trainer 

 will find out in time the good and bad quali- 

 ties of all the horses he may be training ; but 

 if he is immediately apprized of any little un- 

 favourable circumstance, he may take early pre- 

 cautionary measures, if not wholly to prevent, 

 at least to diminish, any trifling defects a horse 

 may have; as, for example, if a horse is tricky, 

 the trainer may put up a good riding boy, who 

 may in some measure be a check upon such 

 a horse ; and perhaps, if his tricks are not of 

 long standing, they may be got the better of 

 altogether. The racing properties of strange 



