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respect with horses in training is difficult to under- 

 stand. It may be sought to be justified by circum- 

 stances the trainer's art may have deftly concealed 

 from us, but, notwithstanding, it is a hundred to one 

 the circumstances are wrong. I know this, how- 

 ever, that in principle the structural condition re- 

 quires the back of a horse should be straightened 

 out and the extreme tension relieved, to enable him 

 to be free from pain after long-continued galloping, 

 and more especially if the siDeed has been excessive 

 — as a liorse experiences in training equally as in 

 racing. 



In thus writing, I cannot but think what a hu- 

 mane act this work will have achieved in the cause 

 of the noble animal we love so well, and how' in- 

 tensely gratifying it will be, at least to me, if I shall 

 have induced some, if not all amongst the more 

 honored of our turf patrons, to give attention to this 

 subject, on the lines I have pointed out. If I have 

 appealed to their conviction, I hope, too, I may not 

 have appealed in vain to the necessity that their 

 horses on coming in from fast work, as soon as< the 

 saddle and sheets are removed, shall be permitted, 

 say in an inclosed shed or other suitable place ar- 

 ranged for the purpose, to throw themselves down 

 and turn over a time or two. The effect this will 

 be found to have upon horses in training, and upon 



