CHAPTER IX. 



WALKING EXERCISE. 



To lay down all the precise rules for exercising 

 the different descriptions of horses, would occa- 

 sion the extending of this work to a voluminous 

 size, a thing of all others I very much wish to 

 avoid. Yet I shall endeavour to lay down, in 

 the most explicit manner I possibly can, the dif- 

 ferent sorts of exercise that should be adopted, 

 according to the circumstances that are likely to 

 occur in the training of a number of race horses, 

 with reference to the effects such exercises may 

 produce on horses of different tempers and con- 

 stitutions. In this chapter I confine myself alone 

 to the various uses or advantages to be derived 

 from walking exercise being properly adminis- 

 tered to horses, according as they may require it. 



