158 THE CONDITION OF HUNTERS 



and when at Chester races I was also informed of a 

 sad mistake on this important subject, which had 

 that week occurred in the stable of an old schoolfellow 

 of mine, and a brilliant performer over a country, 

 in the Cheshire Hunt, whose groom had given a horse 

 of his ten drachms of aloes, without a sufficient pre- 

 paration, and he was buried on the day I heard the 

 story, having lately been purchased in Leicestershire 

 for either three or four hundred guineas. — Another 

 death by physic, occasioned by bad management, 

 came to my ears a few weeks since. This was the case 

 of a horse which I sold at two years old, and was now 

 five. He was very promising for a hunter, and Mr F. 

 Holyoak was in treaty for him, when death put an 

 end to everything. 



I have before observed that I never lost, or had a 

 horse in any danger, from physic ; but with such horses 

 as are at all apt to be griped it is desirable to give 

 the dose overnight, as in that case the symptoms 

 would shew themselves in the day time, when relief 

 would be more readily administered. I shall, however, 

 have much to say on this subject at another time. 



proper action of Barbadoes aloes it is always expedient to give the 

 horse two or three bran mashes before administering the bolus. — 

 Revising Editor. 



