WALKING EXERCISE. 143 



Whenever horses may be at walking exercise 

 on a course, up between the rails, the groom is to 

 bear in mind never to let them turn to come 

 back, until they have passed the winning-post for 

 the usual length at which the horses are pulled 

 up after running, previous to their going home to 

 the stables. This rule stands good when horses 

 take their gallops on a course, and the same 

 when they may have to sweat over one. 



To conclude this subject, we will suppose a 

 number of horses (say a dozen) to have had their 

 physic, and to have been long enough at walking 

 exercise, to have given sufficient strength and 

 tone to the tendons of their legs, so as to allow 

 them with safety to commence their gallops; the 

 use and effects of which we will speak of in the 

 next chapter. 



