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may require, or according as the ages and con- 

 stitutions of different horses may vary. 



The groom must bear in mind, that he is, on 

 no account, to allow of his boys being out of his 

 sight while they are riding the horses at any 

 sort of exercise. Boys are tricky ; at least, 

 they were so when I was one, and if they are at 

 any time allowed to take horses up their gallops 

 alone, they will suddenly spring and spurt them 

 along here and there ; this not only makes young 

 ones unsteady, but they get into the habit of strid- 

 ing too quick and hurrying themselves. Horses 

 in training are not to be hurried in any part of 

 their exercise or work ; they are at all times to 

 go a fair even pace, and when it does become 

 necessary to increase the pace in the concluding 

 of a gallop or sweat, it should be properly put 

 into practice by the groom ordering it to be 

 gradually increased from any one point or ob- 

 ject on the ground to that of another, and which 

 I shall presently take an opportunity of men- 

 tioning. Among the boys of a racing establish- 

 ment, there are invariably some of them that ride 

 much better than others ; and from among those 

 that are light and ride the best, the groom 



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