TREATMENT MUST BE VARIED AS REQUIRED. 105 
undoubtedly an essential in training; yet were all horses 
physicked alike, the lives of some would be endangered, 
whilst others would be hardly affected. 
In some horses the urinary organs are so defective that it is 
necessary after seyere work to give them sweet spirits of nitre 
in the water; for without it, not only would the animals suffer 
great pain, but inflammation would set in and death follow. 
Again, of two horses, one will probably be predisposed to 
constipation, the other to relaxation of the bowels ; to treat 
both alike would be tantamount to killing one of them. 
There are other differences of constitution and temperament 
in different animals too numerous to specify, which can only 
be discovered in each individual by a practised eye; and 
these should be dealt with as the particular case indicates. 
Moreover the time at our disposal is short. Horses, like 
company, are continually coming and going, whilst each 
season brings its addition of yearlings. One mistake is often 
sufficient to produce disaster. ‘Break but a link in the 
chain and it is useless,” is an aphorism to be borne in mind in 
connection with training, and not less the one that tells us 
“One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot 
make him drink ;” the latter applying with equal force to 
edibles, for “Druid” tells us in “Post and Paddock” that 
John Scott could never coax Voltzgeur to eat. 
The treatment of preparation would be incomplete 
without this caution against a conclusion that it is to be 
achieved by following any dogmatic rule. There is another 
point on which a word of advice should be said—the frequency 
of running in public. 
Iam not an advocate of doing this too often, and when I 
do run my horses I like them to be fit. It is perilous to do 
otherwise even when you think you have something in hand ; 
