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These noble creatures are trained to resist the enormously 
powerful impulses to expend this energy on first coming 
out of the stable; but you will have to examine horses 
not practised in restraint, and who “cannot carry corn;” 
therefore, if you do mount such a subject, be sure this 
first outburst has subsided into zxdifference, but never be 
guilty of pushing your trial to the third stage, when azn 
ensues. If you require to take a horse into a fallow 
field you will induce pain, and when the horse comes to 
stand and cool stiffness must be evinced, and if there is 
no lameness it is no fault of yours. No man would take 
a horse belonging to me into a fallow field to try his 
wind twice. If a horse is being trotted round you in a 
circle on grass, stop the process immediately you see 
signs of distress approaching ; by this time you have 
heard him breathe scores of times, and you ought to 
have a fair estimate of his breathing capabilities. After 
you have listened attentively to the breathing, have him 
‘brought up to a standstill, and notice how long the 
breathing is in quieting down to the normal. This is of 
very great importance, as I shall show you at our next 
meeting. At present I shall close these remarks with a 
protest against the unscientific practice of allowing a 
horse to go out of earshot, and having him galloped 
past you or up to you. It isa most unreliable and un- 
Scientific proceeding. 
