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CHAPTER XV. 



Maximum and Minimum of Work in Training First Preparation of the 

 overfed Dog; of the Bitch in Season Modes of Reducing Fat Directions 

 for Feeding Private Trials Final Preparation Management at Meetings 

 and after Running Receipts for Cordials. 



MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM OF WORK IN TRAINING. 



SOON after the publication of the first edition of ' The Greyhound/ 

 an opinion was very generally expressed by coursers that the 

 amount of work directed by me was too great, and that many 

 greyhounds would be ruined by following out strictly the rules 

 which I had laid down. Mr. Temple was particularly strong in 

 his censures, and indeed may be said to have originated the 

 exaggerated idea which was formed of them. At his instigation, I 

 believe, Mr. Welsh obtained from six celebrated public coursers 

 accounts of the mode of training adopted by each, and published 

 them in the sixteenth volume of ' Thacker's Annual,' whether with 

 or without the knowledge and consent of the writers is a matter of 

 no importance to my present purpose. Suffice it that they were 

 published, and that the experience of these gentlemen, however 

 gained, will always be of the utmost value to the young courser. I 

 am not going to follow Mr. Welsh's example, and insert these letters 

 without authority, much as I should like to do- so; but I cannot resist 



