PRINCIPLES OF TRAINING. 37 



but render them more healthy, and will consequently 

 render the trainer's task a much easier one. No one 

 but a practical man can . imagine the anxiety and 

 trouble attending the conditioning of a half-starved 

 light-fleshed yearling. Some drugs must be used in 

 addition to good food for many months, and then you 

 only get an artificial soft brute, incapable of undergoing 

 any real work. And in these days, when trainers have 

 so much on their hands, it is doubly necessary that, so 

 far as is practicable, yearlings should be properly pre- 

 pared for them, previous to being consigned to their 

 charge. 



TRAINING FOR THE TURF. 



In training for the Turf, the great object to be at* 

 tained is the least amount of bulk combined with the 

 greatest amount of muscular action, or, in other words, 

 to reduce the system from a dropsical habit, softness of 

 muscle, and consequent incapacity for severe action, to 

 an active and healthy tone, as well as to increased 

 vascularity of the whole muscular system ; which will 

 produce the required increase of strength, activity, 

 and stamina usually designated by the simple word 

 condition. 



Having thus briefly explained the first principles 

 and the objects in view, I will proceed to show how this 

 condition is to be brought about. 



In the first place, too great caution cannot be given 

 as to too great anxiety in attaining this object, or what 

 trainers term ( hurrying.' Consider what a change you 



