174 TRAINING. 



fore, everything must be tried to make masti- 

 cation and digestion go on well. He should love 

 both his food and his work, then he will thrive. 

 Three drachms of rack or two of black salt, in 

 every feed, is useful in training to all kinds of 

 horses : begin with less. You must be careful 

 to distinguish the difference between a poor 

 feeder and a little eater : the horse that eats the 

 little set before him with an appetite, increases in 

 stamina, and keeps his flesh on, is no weak-con- 

 stitutioned horse, and you should not give to 

 such a one more than he actually requires. The 

 dung should always fall in balls at the commence- 

 ment of training, and you should endeavour to 

 keep it of the consistence of cow- dung the whole 

 time ; but the high feeding and strong galloping, 

 and the nature of gram itself, renders it very 

 difficult, and, towards the last month, almost 

 impossible to do so. Boiled coltee, one feed a 

 day, is good for horses that are naturally rather 

 lax, as well as others ; or it can be given for the 

 one o'clock feed ; and again at half-past eight 

 o'clock feed ; this, with the cordial ball, will 

 generally keep the dung of a proper consistence, 



with the bran ; then he would be obliged, more or less, to mas- 

 ticate the grain. A handful of linseed-meal, if not disliked, 

 may be tried in each feed for this purpose, in lieu of the bran, 

 and it is preferable. 



