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pounds ; he would have an even thoufand, and 

 on that determination kept his horfe fo long 

 in a hot ftable in London, that he became con- 

 fumptive, and about a fortnight before his 

 death, was fold for twelve or thirteen pounds 

 at Tatterfall's. 



No arguments can be required by readers of 

 common fenfe, in fupport of the necefhty of 

 Exercise for horfes kept within doors ; that 

 is to fay, out of their natural ftate, in order to 

 preferve them in health, or in apt condition for 

 labour ; all that remains is to remind men of 

 the duty, to defcribe its moft advantageous 

 method, and due portion. In truth, it is a 

 bufmefs in general either totally neglefted, or 

 conduced upon very erroneous principles. 



Exercife is two-fold, either calculated for' 

 common occafions, and the mere prefervation 

 of health, or for the purpofe of fitting a horfe 

 to undergo extraordinary exertions. The firft 

 intent may be fully anfwered by walking 

 EXERCISE alone, and I can, from long expe- 

 rience, affure thofe keepers of coach and road- 

 horfes, who fend their bovs out to rattle and 

 flurry them over the hard ground, and even 

 the ftones of the metropolis, by way of falutary 

 exercife, that they are miferably wide of their 

 mark ; but the abfurdity of the fa6l is dreadful 

 indeed, when we know that even finew-ftrain- 

 ed, groggy, and foundered horfes, are exercifed 



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