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it is not necessary they should be in very strong 

 work : their work should be such as will keep 

 them sufficiently clear in their wind, and light 

 and fresh enough in themselves, so as to come 

 their best pace for a little longer length than the 

 length of the trial-ground on which the two year 

 olds or any other horses may have to be tried. 

 The particulars of those and other trials will 

 be found fully explained in their proper places. 



The third class of horses, as they will have to 

 winter with the second class, I shall only cursorily 

 mention them here as being horses of delicate 

 constitutions, as I shall speak more particularly 

 of them when I come to notice the different sort 

 of treatment to be adopted in the training of 

 different horses. 



We now come to the noticing of the arrange- 

 ments necessary to be attended to in the treat- 

 ment of the second and third class horses for 

 three months. The days shortening as the au- 

 tumn further advances, the hour for opening 

 the stables in the morning gradually becomes 

 later, as of course does the time for the going 

 out of the horses in the morning to exercise. 

 After the middle or twenty-fifth of September, 



