252 EXERCISE. 



standard, or general criterion, cannot be sup- 

 posed to be held criiicaUy correct wit'h aU 

 horses, without distinction ; as there are 

 many that will consequently bear much 

 more labour and fatigue, from greater bo- 

 dily strength, inherent spirit, or constitu- 

 tional stamina, than others that fall very 

 far short in constant work and execution, 

 from a want of those perfections so truly 

 valuable in horses of the former descrip- 

 tion. 



As I have before said, exercise, in all its 

 particulars of manner^ distance, and duration, 

 must be entirely regulated by contingent re- 

 -flections upon the health, state, and condition^ 

 of the subject ; so it must be perfectly clear 

 that the I'ecommendation of certain exercise 

 to horses in a high state of health and condi- 

 tion, cannot be supposed to extend to thos€ 

 under physic, or in different states of, or re- 

 covery from, disease ; such must unavoid- 

 ably receive judicious regulations from the 

 parties concerned ; as the kind of daily ex- 

 ercise we now have in contemplation, only 

 appertains to horses in health, tiie preserva- 

 tion of which is the present object of con- 



