84 TREATMENT OF HORSES 



physical powers are in the medium, and at three 

 or four years old may have been found to have 

 gone off their speed in the running of short 

 lengths for any of the great stakes at Newmarket. 

 These horses, under those circumstances, are 

 usually selected for what is called a campaign, 

 or roving commission ; in other words, they are 

 got ready as early in the spring as may be ne- 

 cessary; and are then sent cff to run as plate 

 horses, at the different meetings on the circuit, 

 in which they have to travel during the sum- 

 mer; and, like the horses of the first class, they 

 return in autumn to the home stables to winter. 



These hearty horses are generally pretty good 

 ones, if allowed to have their day, that is, not 

 to come out to run too often. If they are brought 

 fresh to post, they can most of them come 

 tolerable good lengths under racing weights; 

 and as there are many of them that do not 

 require so very much work in training, and as 

 they do not run so frequently as the first class of 

 horses, they generally return fresher to the 

 home stables in the autumn. These hearty 

 horses or mares, not being gluttonously inclined, 

 do very well in stall stables ; indeed, many of 

 them do better than in boxes, as they feed bet- 



