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X HAT exercise is essential to the attainment and enjoyment of 

 perfect health both to man and animals, is an axiom so much in every 

 one's mouth, that it would seem almost superfluous to use any argu- 

 ments in order to prove the necessity of having recourse to it in the 

 case of the Horse ; but this animal appears to me, to be the victim of 

 absurdity as much in this particular, as in many others which regard 

 his ordinary treatment. And though perhaps, it may appear a sort 

 of solecism, to include the article of exercise, under the head of 

 stable management, yet I apprehend, in the enlarged interpretation 

 of the phrase, I shall stand excused for so doing. It must be evident, 

 I think to every man of a reflecting mind, who has turned his attention 

 to the consideration of the subject ; that the want of regular exercise 

 must lay the foundation of many diseases in Horses. It is unques- 

 tionable that it does so, at all seasons of the year, but more espe- 

 cially does it occasion grease and swellings in the limbs in winter, 

 and farcy and feverish complaints, in the summer. 



Every Horse, therefore, that is kept in a stable, and highly fed, 

 ouglit to get at least two hours exercise daily ; if we would secure him 



