TRAINING. H5 



your neighbours ; but if you enter on your sporting 

 career, intending to train all horses in the same man- 

 ner, without any regard to their peculiar constitutions 

 and temperaments, their likings and dislikings, think- 

 ing the whole secret consists in making them thin, 

 you will generally succeed, to your heart's content, in 

 bringing down all the flesh and fat of the body, de- 

 positing it, unluckily, about the legs and ancles : when 

 degraded to this state, they should be shut up in 

 the dark stable ; for such horses, " there is no place 

 like home." 



STABLE AND CLOTHING. 



If fresh air and a cool stall are necessary to put a 

 horse into condition, how much more so must they 

 now be, when his powers are about to be exerted to 

 the highest pitch they are capable of attaining ; but, 

 as the more inducement to rest, and to He down, a 

 horse in training has, the better, close up the sides 

 with tatties that he may not be disturbed during 

 either the day or night. One single blanket jhool, 

 made as described at page 84, with the single neck 

 and head-piece, will generally, during all November, 

 be quite sufficient clothing ; and these are only to be 

 worn at night, and during the morning's walk. In 

 December and January, if it should be cold at night, 

 the thermometer below fity-five degrees, another 

 body blanket can be added at nine o'clock. It is 

 sudden changes from warm clothing to no clothing, 

 and from warm stabling to cold air, that hurt a horse, 

 not a cool and uniform temperature. The thermo- 

 meter, at noon, in the stall, during the cold months, 

 varies from seventy to eighty degrees. 



