DETAIL OF WORK 191 



During regular training, a horse should travel cCboiit 

 twelve miles a day, including every kind of exercise. 

 For instance, four miles before the morning gallop, which 

 might be for one and a half miles, a one-and-a-half mile 

 walk back to stable, and a five-mile walk in the evening : 

 an amount which should be rarely exceeded, for long-con- 

 tinued walking makes horses stale and leg-weary. On 

 days of rest, a live-mile walk in the morning, and a four- 

 mile one in the evening will generally be enough. If a 

 horse be gross, and have at the same time doubtful legs, 

 I would prefer to trust to a mild dose of physic, say once 

 a month, and a sweat, say once a week, given at a trot 

 and a walk, alternately, late in the morning, than too- 

 long-continued walking exercise. 



At Newmarket, horses in training are usually kept 

 out in the morning about two hours and a half; a period 

 which is sometimes extended to three hours. Some 

 trainers give them also a walk in the evening; while 

 others take them out only once. 



The usual practice at Newmarket is, after the horse 

 has been walked for about three-quarters of an hour, to 

 give him two canters of about three-quarters of a mile 

 each, and then to send him his gallop. Between the 

 canters, and between the last canter and the gallop, the 

 horse is walked back to the spot from which he first 

 started. As in other details of training in England, no 

 invariable routine is observed. 



I have previously pointed out that the trainer must 

 be guided by the manner a horse scrapes, in deciding as 

 to the advisability of giving him a sweat; for at this 

 stage of his work he will not be sent fast enough to try 



