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FOREIGN TRAINING METHODS CHANGING Training methods have greatly changed in Australia and long distance gallops are quite out of vogue. At one time, when a horse had to run in a two-mile race, he had to gallop at that distance in private; but now anything farther than a mile and three-eighths spin is unusual in a horses preparation, 110 matter how great the distance of the race in which it lias to compete. Sometimes they tackle a mile and a half, but most trainers now hold that long gallops do more harm than good and act accordingly. Not only in Australia, but in England, ideas have changed, which caused a contributor to the London Sportsman to write as follows last month when discussing Hakis win in the Goodwood Plate,- two miles and three-eighths: "It used to be the custom with old-time trainers to train their horses, for long distance races with such severity that they appeared on. the race course with their ribs the most prominent part about them and their frames looking like a bag of bones. It is altogether different nowadays, the present school of trainers realizing that excessive lightness means weakness and that so long as a horse is clean inside, with no fat and waste tissue, the bigger and more muscular he is the more lie is in a condition to do himself justice. If a horse is a stayer by nature he will stay, provided lie is fit, and if he is not galloping two miles every day will not. make him one. A striking example of the new method was afforded while the horses about to take part in the Goodwood Plate were walking round the paddock, every one of the eleven starters looking heavier than lie lias ever been before, yet each was as hard as nails and fit to run for the Goodwood estate." Sydney Referee. i , f T 1 e 1 1 s B 0 1 s 11 r a -
