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their constitutions and engagements will permit, 

 a couple or three doses of physic each. This we 

 advise being done for the purpose of taking the 

 little staleness out of them which the work they 

 have been doing to get them ready for their trials 

 may have occasioned, as well as to refresh them 

 after their travelling. When they have recovered 

 from their physic, we shall have eight weeks left 

 to get our colts and horses ready to run ; the for- 

 mer for the Derby, and the latter for whatever 

 engagements they may be entered in. 



The time we have here allowed is quite as 

 long as is necessary for getting horses ready to 

 run that have previously been trained or treated 

 in the way we have already mentioned, as by 

 keeping them longer, provided they have been 

 on dry nutritious food, without physic, would be 

 more likely to injure than improve them. Light 

 flighty horses, however, require but a very short 

 time indeed to get them ready to run; conse- 

 quently they require little or no physic; but 

 it is a very different thing with horses of strong 

 constitutions; that sort of horses require, accord- 

 ing to their ages and the work they have been 

 doing, and the races they have run, to be phy- 

 sicked at proper intervals, about the time we 



