110 TREATMENT OF HORSES 



keep well up in your places ; do not let me see one 

 of you loose, or lay out of your ground in any part 

 of the gallop." This mode of galloping horses out 

 of training is only to be had recourse to with a 

 view to steadying them, which it mostly does; and, 

 further, it is not of course intended to include, in 

 this gallop, either yearlings or two year olds. 



Generally speaking, the parts of the downs the 

 groom should select for his horses to exercise on 

 will depend on the uncertain or settled state of 

 the weather; if the mornings are likely to be 

 wet, the nearer to the stables the exercise ground 

 can be had the better, as, in case of rain coming on 

 suddenly, the horses' clothes would not be much 

 wetted. If the wind is high, and the mornings 

 cold, the warmest situations should be chosen for 

 the horses to walk in, as the vales, or indeed 

 any situations that may afford the most shelter. 



Whatever exercise may be deemed necessary, 

 the training groom is to give his orders according 

 to the different effects he intends such exercise 

 to produce on the horses he may have under his 

 care, at this season of the year. But such other 

 exercise as is necessary to invigorate the whole 

 system of the horse, and bring the surface of his 



