Photo, by M. H. Hayes. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Training Horses for Racing — Watering Horses — Stable Management — 

 Wasting — Charlie Bailey — Colonel Locke Elliot — Ben Roberts — East 

 Indian Horses — Australian Horses — Arab Horses — Sheikh Esa bin 

 Curtas — Veterinary Work — How Ideas come to Authors — Professor 

 Williams — Salmon Fishing — Professor Dick — Dr Fleming — Veterinary 

 Surgeons — ' The Buffs ' — Leaving the Service. 



I HAVE had so much to do with training horses that I 

 cannot resist making a few observations about this, 

 my favourite occupation. When training a horse for racing, 

 we want his muscles to become abnormally strong and to 

 acquire the ability of acting quickly. Under healthy con- 

 ditions, the strength of a muscle varies according to the 

 amount of its blood supply, from which it obtains the 

 elements for its development. The less exercise is taken 

 the slower is the circulation of blood, and the muscles tend, 

 so to speak, to become starved and weak. When the 



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