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much for their health, yet are incapable of standing much 

 work or exercise without giving rise to splints, sprains, &c. 

 When exercise is necessary for the young horse it should 

 be confined to a walk, and in double the time that is allowed 

 to the older animal. It is the want of this physiological 

 knowledge on the part of those who profess to be adepts in 

 the art (I had almost said science) of training horses for 

 the race course and turf, that destroys so many excellent 

 and promising young horses, when placed under their 

 charge. Indeed, so much is this the case, that it is but 

 few that stand the unjust and cruel treatment in the daily 

 exercise that is exacted from them. While, if a year or 

 two older, or at least with a more judicious system in force, 

 many that are injured, would be more likely to show them- 

 selves animals of speed and value, instead of worn out, 

 crippled, broken in spirit, diseased in the bones of the 

 joints, with spavin, ringbone, and other osseous deposits, 

 before the animal had begun its career of usefulness and 

 profit. 



The subject of training we will leave where it is, in the 

 hands of those, who through ignorance of the animal and 

 its power of endurance under adverse circumstances, have 

 done more to hinder and close the door to a more perfect 

 system of breeding horses, than even the present system 

 of racing. We hope a good and beneficent government 

 will speedily recognise the evil and apply the remedy. 



Blanketing horses is a matter of much importance, for 

 upon a proper use of the blanket its principal value de- 



