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cipal reference to those persons who are in middle 

 stations of life, and wlio contrive to keep a horse for 

 business or pleasure, but cannot afford to maintain a 

 servant for the express purpose of looking after it 

 The first rule I would lay down is, that every horse 

 should have daily exercise. The animal that with 

 usual stQ-ble feeding, stands idle for three or four 

 days, as is the case in many establishments, must 

 suffer. He is predisposed to fever, or to grease, or 

 worse than all, disease of the feet, and if, after three 

 or four days of inactivity, he is ridden far and fast, 

 he is almost sure to have inflammation of the lungs 

 or of the feet. A gentleman's, or tradesman's horse 

 suffers a great deal more from idleness than he does 

 from work. A stable fed horse should have two 

 hours' exercise every day, if he is to be kept free 

 from disease. Nothing of extraordinary, or even of 

 ordinary labor, can be effected on the road or in the 

 the field, without sufficient and regular exercise. It 

 is this alone which can give energy to the system, or 

 develop the power of any animal. In training the 

 trotter and the running horse, regular exercise is the 

 most important of all considerations, however, it may 

 be forgotten in the usual management of the stable. 

 The exercised horse will discharge his task, and 

 sometimes a severe one, with ease and pleasure, while 

 the idle and neglected one will be fatigued ere half 

 his labor is accomplished, and if he is pushed a little 

 too far, dangerous inflammation will ensue. How of- 

 ten, nevertheless, does it happen, that the horse 



