104 PREPARATION. 
CHAPTER XII. 
PREPARATION (concluded.) 
Horses differ in constitution—Treatment must be- varied as necessary—Horses 
should not be run in public too often ; evils of the process—Fitness ; its signs 
indicated ; only to be achieved by perseverance ; anecdote of the late Mr. R. 
Stephenson—In-and-out running considered, and examples—ester and Charon: 
their performances explained; the lesson to be learned therefrom—The 
American system of training—Contrast of distance and pace—Extra clothing 
—Proofs of its inferiority in rarity of their victories here—/rioress at New- 
market—Mr,. Ten Broeck and Mr. Sanford—Condition of Preakness when 
at Epsom, 
THE trainer’s difficulties are numerous and great. No rule 
can be laid down with mathematical precision that will enable 
him to overcome them. We must be content therefore to 
accept general rules, and apply them as far as may be prac- 
ticable in varying cases. Ina stable of fifty horses or less, it 
may be said that no two of them will thrive on exactly the 
same treatment. When it is so, it is the exception. They 
differ in many ways: in constitution, in temper, in variability 
of health, in soundness and in appetite, as well as in other 
things ; and each individual case should be carefully studied 
and treated accordingly. This special treatment applies to 
the time and manner of feeding (the change of hay, corn, 
and green food) and in other ways attending to their com- 
fort in the stable, and to the regulation of the work given 
to each animal in his exercise. Nor is this all. Physic is 
