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themselves, get gradually to the extent of their 

 stride, and will ably maintain their best pace in 

 a good rally, without being over-marked, and 

 made what is called " a spread-eagle of." 



The increasing of the pace of yearlings in 

 their gallops, and the length they are to go in 

 them, especially with respect to colts of the 

 first and second classes, must be regulated by 

 the training groom, according to circumstances, 

 as that of his noticing how their different con- 

 stitutions may vary, or each colt may become 

 affected by the different gallops he may be 

 taking. And it is also to be observed that 

 the whole of these colts, although yearlings, 

 must go such a pace and length in their gal- 

 lops, as, from one sweating day to the other, 

 may be found necessary to keep them all suffi- 

 ciently clear in their wind, so as to enable them 

 to take the few sweats the^y may have to do with 

 tolerable ease to them^&lves. But the reader must 

 bear in mind, that the method I have here advised 

 for the teaching of^the first and second class colts 

 to stride steadily in their gallops, can seldom 

 or ever be practised in a similar way with any 

 of the third class, the latter being much too 

 irritable in their tempers to be taught in this 

 manner. 



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