CHAPTER VI 



PRACTICAL TEAINING 



Remarks on race-horses in India — Training quarters — General rules 

 for work during training — Detail of work — Sweating — Remarks on 

 training continued — Training by short repeated gallops — Remarks 

 on training continued — Trials — Training ponies — Setting — Treat- 

 ment after running — Race-horses travelling by rail. 



Racehorses in India.— It is an old and true turf 

 maxim that the better bred a horse is the more training 



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will he stand. In this country " blood " is rather an un- 

 certain guide for the trainer, for many of our horses are 

 " cocktails " in the strict English sense of the word. At 

 the same time I must admit that the type of horse which 

 Australia sends us is improving yearly in quality and 

 breeding, and that cases of giving "salt-water pedigrees" 

 are becoming of rare occurrence. 



The subject of pure blood and high caste in the Arab 

 is one on which I have never been able to gain any exact 

 information ; nor do I think that any distinct rules as to 

 external appearance can be laid down that would not 

 equally apply to any other breed of horses intended to 

 gallop fast, and " stay," with a fair weight up. Many 

 young Arabs which look unpromisiug at first, to our eyes, 



