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then brought him into the stable and put a 

 muzzle on him. He was afraid to tell the trainer 

 what had happened, and at two o'clock the horse 

 was taken to the saddling paddock, the flag fell, 

 and Oakstick sailed away, never running better 

 in his life, and won the race (a four -mile steeple- 

 chase) in a common canter against sixteen others. 

 Neither of us have ever sent our horses out for 

 a hard day's work hungry since. I know one 

 gentleman now who will not allow his groom to 

 feed his horse more than twice a day, and he is 

 surprised to find that it suffers from indigestion. 

 After letting the heat of its stomach consume 

 itself for ten hours per day, and when the horse 

 is famishing with hunger, giving it as much as it 

 can consume, it does not properly chew its food, 

 but it swallows it whole. I was once asked by 

 a gentleman how I managed with a bad-feeding 

 horse, to which I replied that I never had one 

 many days. But, said the gentleman, if you had 

 one, would you not give tonic powders ? I replied, 

 certainly, such as nature supplies. "What do 

 you mean?" he asked. I said, "If I have a 

 horse off its feed because its digestive organs are 

 upset, I take it out in the fresh air for half an 

 hour in the morning before feeding. After it 

 has had its walk, I bring it in and let it drink 

 what cold water it likes, and then give it a small 

 quantity of corn and a little sweet hay. I give 

 little at one time, but feed often, and in a few 

 days, without the aid of any drugs, I find my 

 horse always ready for his food." 



In feeding, the motto should be — Quality, not 



