place in a training stable. I have never known a 

 horse to be benefited by any of these disgusting habits. 

 The training stable should be conducted with the same 

 degree of propriety that is observed in the transac- 

 tion of any other legitimate business, and should 

 at all times be a place where ladies, as well 

 as all others, can visit without their sensibili- 

 ties being shocked by hearing and seeing things to 

 which their ears and eyes are not accustomed. 



A Southern climate has many advantages not pos- 

 sessed by a Northern one, in preparing horses for cam- 

 paigning. I have experimented in different latitudes for 

 the past twenty-five years and feel that this experience 

 qualifies me to speak with some degree of accuracy. 

 The climate of California in winter is all that could be 

 desired, as, except for the rain, there is scarcely a day 

 all winter in which horses cannot be worked ; but 

 the great distance to ship back and forth from points 

 east of the Rocky Mountains renders a resort to that 

 delightful climate impracticable. Everything con- 

 sidered, I think the most satisfactory climate to winter 

 campaigning horses east of the Rocky Mountains is in 

 Alabama and Georgia, as it is warm enough there so 

 that horses may be worked during all the winter 

 months as well as they can in the North during the 

 spring and early summer. I have wintered at Selma, 

 Ala., several winters, and like it very much. There is 

 no use in starting to race horses unless they have 

 sufficient speed and endurance to warrant the conclu- 

 sion that they will have a fair show of winning in their 

 classes, and in order for them to be fit for racing they 

 must have a careful and painstaking preparation. You 

 cannot take a horse direct from the plow to the race 

 track and make a successful campaign with him, how- 



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