408 INSTRUCTIONS FOR TRAINING, 



vy clothing, (three or four blankets) — the next morning, after break- 

 fast, walk three or four miles, and gallop one slowly *, give a mouth- 

 ful or two of water,* and gallop two or more, as the weather is 

 warmer or colder : carry Rim then to the stable, take out the unde- 

 blanket, rolling the cover up, half at a time, scrape well, rub bod> 

 and legs until perfectly dry, put on blanket and hood, and walk for 

 an hour or two, occasionally giving a mouthful of water with a 

 handful of meal in it, about milk warm at first. His legs, when per- 

 fectly cool, should be washed with warm water and soap, rubbed 

 dry, and the horse put to rest and given a mash,t (scalded oats,) in 

 the evening walked four or five miles. 



The quantity of exercise mentioned, is for horses, after four years 

 old, and upwards ; few colts require more than three miles a day. 

 Every eight or ten days the horses should be taken from the exer- 

 cise ground and walked on the road. A careful trainer will always 

 know the condition of his horse's legs every morning before gal- 

 loping, and decide whether they receive their work or be sent, if 

 their legs be feverish, to have the fever extracted by standing in the 

 water, to the pond. To keep up the appetite, I have known nothing 

 better than a table spoonful of the powder of poplar bark, (the 

 liriodendron tiilipifera,) every day or two when it is observed that 

 they are mincing their food : salt should be given once a week. 



[It will be seen by a comparison of the above instructions, which 

 correspond with the system now usually pursued in the South, th-at 

 it is much milder than the system laid down by Mr. Duvall of the 

 olden time. It is wonderful, (observes our correspondent,) how 

 their horses could stand such severe training i and he supposes that 

 the greater fleetness of the horses of the present day may be ascrib- 

 ed, in some measure, to changes which have been adopted in the 

 eystem of training. It is true that many of our fine horses are let 

 down and trained off at an early age, but that may be attributed to 

 the severe trials to which they are put at a tender age— four mila 

 heats, in quick time at three years old ! ] 



* Milk-warm, with a little meal stirred in it. 



t Not always necessaiy, except there is much costiveness* . . 



