SUMiMEllING & CONDITIONING OF HUNTEUS i ) 



might be turned out. As a rule, the blister will 

 keep them quiet. If it does not, and they are 

 inclined to gallop about, they must of course be 

 taken in again ; but otherwise the amount of 

 exercise they get nibbling at the spring grass will 

 do them good. The sound horses can now begin 

 walking exercise, starting with half an hour a day, 

 gradually increased to twice that amount. Unless 

 a horse has a tendency to flat feet, or very thin 

 soles, he will do better now if shod with tips, which 

 will bring his frogs on the ground, and check any 

 tendency to coarse or contracted feet. 



With regard to this point, if you do elect to 

 summer your horses at grass, be careful to shoe 

 them with tips in front (they will require no hind 

 shoes), and remember that their feet must be seen 

 to at least once a month. This is the chief expense 

 connected with summering them in the stable. If 

 you have a shady paddock near your stable, it is a 

 luxury for a horse to be allowed a run in it in the 

 cool of the morning and evening ; and if the weather 

 is very hot he can be left out all night. If they 

 are quiet, two or three horses can be turned out in 

 this way together, but your groom must make 

 certain that they do not gallop about, or kick at one 

 another. It is sheer cruelty to turn a short-tailed 

 horse out in the middle ot a hot summer's day 

 when the flies are at him. 



