CHAPTER X. 



GALLOPING EXERCISE. 



The gallops given to race horses in the morning, 

 when they are in training, is to a certain extent 

 for the purpose of improving their wind, and 

 increasing the strength of their muscular and 

 tendonous powers. Yet this sort of exercise must 

 be regulated, as to pace and length, just ac- 

 cording as it may be found to affect different 

 horses, as it produces very different effects on 

 some to what it does on others. Horses, there- 

 fore, in an early state of their condition, should 

 begin their gallops very gradually. Now, as the 

 trainer will have to increase the pace and length 

 of their gallops, previous to the horses begin- 

 ning their sweats, he will soon be able to judge 

 how^ each horse is likely to become affected by 



