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also Apothecary's weights, a measure for fluids, an 

 apparatus for compounding medicines, &c. In 

 addition to these, the following instruments and 

 articles should be kept, viz : — fleam and blood 

 stick ; tooth-rasp, with a guard ; seaton and curved 

 needles ; abscess lancet ; docking machine ; firing, 

 searing, and budding irons, casting hobbles, im- 

 proved ball iron ; drencing horn, flannel for fo- 

 mentations and poultices, woollen and linen ban- 

 dages, tow, &c. 



The exercise necessary to get a horse into proper 

 wind and condition to race, may be thus classi- 

 fied, viz : walking exercise, galloping exercise, 

 and sweating. The trainer having carefully pre- 

 pared his horse, by physic, for the work necessary 

 to get him into racing order, commences in the 

 spring (regulating the period according to his 

 engagements) with walking exercise. 



But before we proceed to enter further upon this 

 subject, we must observe that no precise rules 

 for exercising the different descriptions of horses 

 can be laid down ; and in no one thing is the 

 talent and experience of the trainer made more 

 apparent than in his regulating the work according 

 to the constitution, age, &c., of his horse, and any 

 circumstances that may arise to occasion a de- 

 parture from the usual practice, with regard to a 

 particular horse. 



We have before observed, that the training 

 stables cannot be too close to the downs on which 



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