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going to the downs — I shall just here remark, that 

 the reader is to bear in mind, that the horses 

 above alluded to are of various ages, as country 

 platers, and that they have all of them done their 

 running by the end of September; therefore, 

 they are to be considered, now, in the month of 

 October, as being out of training. I am aware 

 that the meetings at Newmarket, and some few 

 other places, are not concluded until the end of 

 October, or, perhaps, sometimes not until the 

 commencement of November. Indeed, to have 

 yearlings and two year olds ready to come to post 

 in Spring, the training of horses may be said to 

 be going on all the year round at Newmarket; 

 I shall therefore treat bye-and-bye of training 

 horses in November, as well as in all other months 

 in which it may be necessary to train them. 



Now, then, with regard to the exercising of 

 the first and second class of horses, it is to 

 be observed, that the exercise for them, and, 

 indeed, for all other race horses that may at 

 any time be out of training, is to be such as will 

 keep them in good health. No matter at what 

 time of the year it is that horses are brought to 

 post, our object must be, when they have done 

 their running, to bring them, by degrees, from the 

 artificial state in which they have so long been 



