406 INSTRUCTIONS FOR TRAINING. 



bing them dry with straw and woollen rubbers ; then leave him till 

 twelve o'clock ; then feed as usual with three quarts at twelve ; at 

 four in the evening brush him and let him walk an hour ; then wa- 

 ter him with water aired or branch water ; then walk him a quar- 

 ter of an hour, take him in and have him well cleaned and rubbed ; 

 then feed at six and nine with three quarts of grain ; then muzzle 

 him. In the morning after his sweat take him to the ground and 

 strip him as for a race ; then run him two miles with a tight rein, 

 and continue him two miles more in a loose ; then clean him and 

 rub him dry ; clothe him and walk him till cool, then take him in, 

 wash his feet, and rub them dry, cleaning him, rubbing him, stuff- 

 ing his feet, and feeding as usual : so continue to gallop every night 

 and morning, as before directed, to wit : In the morning first gal- 

 lop two miles, second gallop one mile, and in the evening one mile 

 each gallop ; sweat every eight days. Train your colts in martin, 

 gales ; bleed after the first sweat, and if necessary after the second 

 sweat. Those are the rules I observe in training. 



CHARLES DUVALI.. 



From ^vhich, the rules observed by Mr. Thomas Larkin, of Vir- 

 ginia, varied in these particulars : he feeds in the morning with 

 four quarts, at twelve with two quarts, and at night witli four 

 quarts; same blades as Mr. Duvall. Morning gallops first two miles 

 and .a half, second two miles. Evening, gallops first two miles, 

 second one mile and a half. Sweats five miles, and brushes his 

 horse before he takes him in ; after cleaning, and rubbing, and dry- 

 mg him, two miles. He washes with cold water, except when he 

 sweats his horse, and waters after the horse comes in and is clean, 

 just before feeding, forty swallows morning and evening, and twelve 

 swallows at twelve o'clock ; mixes a spoonful of sulphur in the 

 mash, after sweating, but no antimony ; walks before galloping, 

 two miles ; between the gallops, one mile. 



Mr. Duvall, in 1797, gave me the foregoing rules : Mr. Larkin 

 trained for me two years. And as a sportsman, that all horses may 

 run in the best order, and that their superiority o^ foot and bottom 

 alone may entitle them to the palm, I with pleasure comply with 

 your request, that through your inestimable paper, all excuses by 

 gentlemen having fine horses, as to the mode of training them, may 

 be removed, and the friends of the turf gratified with fine sport. 



American Farmer. 



[from the AMERICAN TURF REGISTER.] 



Mr. Editor — The within was recently found among the papers 

 of an old sportsman of the turf, (a pencil memorandum) in the 

 shape of answers to questions, by a gentleman well known to the 

 Virginia turfites, who was at that time about to begin his racing 

 career. 1 have examined it with a trainer of long experience, and 

 with few alterations hand it to you for publication in the Sporting 

 Magazine. A. Viruinian. 



