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Diet and Exercise. 



Requiring a particular treatment of either diet or 

 exercise a treatment widely different from that which 

 is ordinarily adopted is a deviation from soundness. 



Dealers' Horses. 



After studying the preceding part of this book, more 

 particularly the contents of the three last paragraphs, 

 the question may naturally arise " How is it possible 

 that dealers' horses pass at all ; for, certainly in the 

 case of high-priced horses, attention must be paid to 

 every little nicety with a view towards securing sound 

 animals ? " It is just this, that as the buyer compels 

 the vendor to keep his horses in a state so highly 

 f< finished/' the buyer must make allowances or he 

 will never effect a purchase. 



If a horse is capable of undergoing the trial as well 

 as other horses in the same adipose state, being, in all 

 other respects, just as he should be according to the 

 rules laid down in this work, then he is SOUND. 



Nobody but the purchaser is to blame for a 

 horse, with no one perceptible defect, having around 

 it as it were an atmosphere of doubt and uncer- 

 tainty ; but where he does not mean to put the horse 

 immediately to work, but intends to bring him to it 



