CHAPTER VI. 



PEACTICAL TRAINING. 



REMARKS OX RACE-HORSES IN INDIA TRAINING QUARTERS GENERAL 

 RULES FOR WORK DURING TRAINING DETAIL OF WOBK SWEAT- 

 ING REMARKS ON TRAINING CONTINUED TRAINING BY SHORT 

 REPEATED GALLOPS REMARKS ON TRAINING CONTINUED TRIALS 

 TRAINING PONIES SETTING TREATMENT AFTER RUNNING RACE- 

 HORSES TRAVELLING BY RAIL. 



Race-horses in India. It is an old and true turf 

 maxim, that the better bred a horse is, the more 

 training will he stand. In this country, " blood" is 

 rather an uncertain guide for the trainer ; for many of 

 our horses are " cocktails " in the strict English sense 

 of the word. At the same time I must admit that the 

 type of horse which Australia sends us, is improving 

 yearly in quality and breeding, and that cases of 

 giving " salt-water pedigrees " are becoming of rare 

 occurrence. 



The subject of pure blood and high caste in the 

 Arab is one on which I have never been able to gain 

 any exact information ; nor do I think that any distinct 

 rules, as to external appearance, can be laid down, that 

 would not equally apply to any other breed of horses 

 intended to gallop fast, and " stay," with a fair weight 

 up. Many young Arabs which look unpromising at 

 first, to our eyes, often turn out the best in the end. 

 These horses take a long time to mature ; their powers 



