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had moderate exercise, a month or six weeks may 

 be sufficient. 



** If you are also to consider his particular con- 

 stitution, if he be fat and foul, yet of a free and 

 wasting nature, apt quickly to consume and lose 

 his flesh — in this case you are not to have so strict 

 a hand, neither can he endure so violent exercise 

 as if he were of a hardy disposition, and would 

 feed and be fat upon all meats and exercises. 



" Again, if he be in extreme poverty, and yet by 

 nature very hardy, and apt soon to recover his 

 flesh, and to hold it out long ; then by no means 

 should you have too tender a hand nor forbear 

 that exercise you would not give a horse of nicer 

 constitution, weak stomach and free spirit." 



There is a good deal of sound common sense in 

 the above; but, as I have stated, the old-time 

 horses and their races presented an entirely different 

 proposition from that which confronts the modern 

 trainer ; and to come to our own times I will now 

 briefly describe a day in my own life. 



I turn out at about five o'clock in the summer. 

 The first lot of horses are got ready for exercise. 



My own ^^^ according to the engagements of 



methods ^jjg horses they get their preparations, 

 doing different work for the different courses 

 they are likely to run. When they come in they 



