PART III. 



PUTTING INTO CONDITION. 



STABLING AND CLOTHING. 



Having made your purchase from the stables, 

 whether as a Racer, Charger, or Hunter, the 

 same system is to be pursued in order to put 

 him into strong healthy condition, externally 

 and internally ; and, from the day he comes 

 out of the Bomb Proof, never let him enter 

 a shut-up stable, but picket him in an open 

 pendal, or under a tent. You are not in Eng- 

 land now, and you will reap the benefit of this 

 by-and-by. From about the 1st of November 

 to the 1st of March, one unlined cumly is neces- 

 sary at night, when picketed in either of the 

 above ; but never more than a dungaree one, 

 if he is, where he has no business to be, in a 

 close shut-up stable. There is no medium witli 



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