CHAPTER V. 



HORSES {continued.) 



In point of distance there is great dissimilarity in 

 the running powers disphiyed by horses. The ma- 

 jority of those in training are undoubtedly of the 

 "sprinter" or short-distance class, but there are a 

 large number variously described as "middle-class" 

 and "long-distance" runners. Whether a horse be- 

 longs to either the one or the other entirely depends 

 on his wind, or lung capacity, and the combined 

 powers possessed in the back and loins. With most 

 horses, however, as we see them, their running dis- 

 tance is an acquired or cultivated art, more than 

 anything else, the course of training being fashioned 

 to suit the character of race those concerned in a 

 horse may prefer to indulge in. With a good many 

 it is not a question of whati a horse may be fitted for 

 and made to accomplish, within its, so to speak, 

 "capacity," but something else is designed — I am 



