PHYSIC, &c. 41 



taken out (if the weather permit) morning 

 and evening, walking him half an hour before 

 his water, and the lame after 5 which (hould 

 be taken at a pond of foft wa'er, in pre- 

 ference to a fpring or running ftream, if pof- 

 fible. His dreffings fhould be as co;iftant and 

 regular as his exercife, which having been 

 gradually lengthened for the firft five or fix 

 days ; he may then, after walking his ufual 

 time, have a moderate gallop (increafing it 

 daily in length and fpced, according to ftate 

 and ftrength) before he is taken to water 

 walking him a proper time, both before and 

 after; by no means adopting that moHridicu^ 

 Ions contemptible^ and pernicious pradice of 

 galloping your horfe immediately after, in fer- 

 vile fubjedion to the illiterate opinion of warm- 

 ing the water in the horfe's belly; a cuftom 

 that has, through the ignorance or folly of 

 fervantSj proved the abfolute ruin of many him^ 

 dreds, as will be clearly explained in the courfc 

 of our future remarks, when we come to fpeak 

 of broken winded horfes. 



This mode of exercife mud: be conftantly per- 



fevered in without relaxation; his gallops night 



and morning fhould be increafed as well as his 



4 walking 



