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their Jlesh, coat, and spirit, when hay or corn 

 do not yield or convey their proper niifri^ 

 merit, if given in fair and just proportions. 

 I consequently avail myself of this fact, to 

 urge the necessity of sound coim, sweet hay^ 

 soft water ^ regular feeds ^ and as regular exercise^ 

 if a horse is desired or expected to appear in 

 good 



CONDITION. 



The word condition, in the phraseology 

 of the turf^ is supposed to imply a horse's 

 being in such a state of perfection, and i1^ 

 strength and power so much above the pur- 

 pose he is distined to, that he displays it in 

 figure and appearance. Yine in coat^ firm in 

 Jlesh^ high in spirits, ?inA fresh upon his legs. 

 To be in this desnable state, if a young horse, 

 and stranger to hard work, may be readily 

 expected, and naturally concluded ; but, on 

 the contrary, where a horse has been subject 

 to a proportion of duty, either on the turf, 

 field, or road, a great degree of good fortune 

 must have attended him through all his 

 journeys, not to have suffered from some one 

 of the many dangers to which he has been so 

 repeatedly exposed. By way therefore of in- 



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