112 TREATMENT OF HORSES 



cessary that all race horses that are to go into 

 training should be well fed and have plenty of 

 flesh on them ; yet those among them, that do 

 not remain constantly in boxes, and that are 

 gluttonously inclined, should in winter, when 

 out of training, have such walking exercise and 

 occasional long slow gallops as will keep them 

 in a moderate state as to flesh. If the groom 

 regulates these exercises as I have advised, he 

 will not only keep them healthy and right as to 

 flesh, but he will obtain other very essential 

 points, such as keeping his horses legs cool and 

 in shape, and their tendons will receive suffi- 

 cient action to keep them strong and well braced, 

 and approaching rather near to what they are 

 when in training. These are circumstances that 

 should be strictly attended to, for it will not do 

 to allow such horses as these to become from 

 indulgence too much relaxed in their constitu- 

 tional or mechanical system, and more parti- 

 cularly if they have to come to post early in 

 the spring. 



The second class of horses are those already 

 noticed as being in the medium; by this I 

 mean, that, although they feed very well, they do 

 not, generally speaking, put up flesh to the 



