42 NOTES FOR HUNTING-MEX 



The secret of good stable management is 

 regularity — regularity in feeding, regularity in 

 exercise, regularity in grooming. 



Considering the accommodation given them, 

 and the amount of forage allowed, few horses 

 can compare with troop horses, as far as appearance 

 is concerned ; yet they often find themselves under 

 the charge of a man not well versed in stable 

 management. The reason for this is, I take it, 

 the fact that if a man sticks to the letter of the 

 Queen's Eegulations as to the care of troop horses, 

 he cannot go far wrong. 



There is a good deal in the following which 

 only affects the stud groom ; but I give to each of 

 my helpers a printed copy of the Eules, which are 

 simple enough, so that no man can say he does 

 not know. 



The first thing you will notice which is different 

 from what is done in most stables is the hour for 

 exercise. 



Grooms, as a rule, love to get their exercise 



over before breakfast. It saves a certain amount 



of time ; but, in my opinion, at the expense 



Exercise 



of the exercise and of the horses. Early 

 exercise in the winter months means a start in the 

 dark, which is liable to cause accidents, through 

 the stud groom being unable to properly inspect 

 the saddling and bridling up. The groom, too, 



