'is SUPPLY OF WATEi;, 



instruction, instead of endorsing each others blunders, they would 

 long ago have found that the mischief m I»oth cases resulted 

 from keeping the poor animal so long without water, and that 

 the hoi-se was destined by natni-e to take both his food and 

 drink often and in small quantities. 



1)5. — With the exceptions we shall mention the horse should 

 always have water within his reach and be allowed to take a few 

 sips at a time with his dry food. When he returns from long 

 fasting or great exertion the necessary fluid he will crave for 

 and which alone can carry all that is ^vanted into or out of his 

 system, should be supplied in small quantities and frequently 

 until his thirst is appeased, after which he may safely be left to 

 help himself. 



The horse like most other animals prefers the water he is 

 accustomed to drink, even though it may not be pure or good. 

 Any great change of water is avoided by careful trainers on the 

 eve of a race. 



9G. — The common cruel practice of keeping a horse for fast 

 work always short of water, has often appeared to result 

 favourably from the fact that it has prevented the horse from 

 eating too much hay. A horse that could not get enough water 

 could not eat as much hay as he otherwise would have done, and 

 we have pointed out that greedy horses often unfit themselves 

 for work by eating too much hay. But the proper limit can be 

 and should be put on the consumption of hay, without keeping 

 a horse in a painful state of fe\er by depriving him of the only 

 fluid thai can keep his blood au'l blood vessels in a state fit for 

 work, and carry nourishment into and poison out of his system. 



1)7. — Having said so much about never keeping the horse 

 long without food or water, this will perhaps be the right place 

 to point out the advantage of timing his meals to his work, and 

 keeping as much room as possible for his lungs when preparing 

 him for short arduous exertion. For such work his lungs will 

 want all the room they can get, and he should have as little to 

 carry as possible, besides which the nervous excitement he 

 undergoes will destroy his appetite and be fatal to good digestion. 

 Only nervous horses are now employed at such work, and when 



