REMARKS ON TRAINING 195 



are above, the worse chance will their legs stand. On this 

 account, before the trainer can venture to send them fast, 

 he must get off some of the weight. 



It is a matter of importance to have a light weight up 

 when giving a horse a sweat; and, in order to obtain 

 proper control, there is no objection to his using a curb, 

 instead of a snaffle. If a lad much over 8 st. rides, the 

 pace should not exceed that of a trot. 



In England trainers now rarely sweat their horses. 

 As Tom Jennings, who trained Gladiateur, Fille de I'Air, 

 Eayon d'Or, etc., once remarked to me, " If you send them 

 fast enough, they'll want no sweating. The difficulty, 

 then, will be to keep them big enough." This at New- 

 market answers well, when the trainer has elastic turf, 

 like that on the Limekilns, on which to gallop his horses, 

 and when he can buy, without putting his hand into his 

 own pocket, an unlimited number of yearlings to replace 

 the older horses as they break down. 



Remarks on Training continued. — If, in the middle 

 of the training, the horse appears at all feverish, or his 

 legs inclined to inflammation from work and high feeding, 

 he should be thrown out of work for a week, bran-mashed 

 for the first two or three days, have some green meat given, 

 and an alterative ball administered. For three or four 

 days after this, his corn should be diminished by one-half, 

 and only walking exercise allowed. 



During the third month of the preparation, the horse, 

 if an Australian or English animal, may at first be sent a 

 mile at about half speed, say in 2 m. 45 s., the time and 

 distance being gradually improved until he does \\ mile 

 in, say, 2 m. 35 s., which would be about conventional 



