SUMMERING AND CONDITIONING 

 HUNTERS 



THE conditioning of Hunters is an important 

 part of stable management, but after all it 

 only calls for the exercise of a little common 

 sense and judgment. It is not like training 

 a racehorse, which you have to get to his highest 

 pitch of perfection by a certain day. The Hunter 

 has to be in condition to take his turn through- 

 out the season and if he is capable of improve- 

 ment when the regular season commences so 

 much the better. Indeed in an ordinary season 

 he should do his three days a fortnight and 

 improve all the way up to the middle of December, 

 and if he should get a week's rest about Christmas 

 he should come out after it in as good condition 

 as he was in on the first of November, or even 

 better. The conditioning of hunters depends 

 to a considerable extent upon how they have 

 been summered, and, for that reason the summer- 

 ing of hunters will be first considered. 



In my younger days the summering of Hunters 

 was generally a pretty simple matter. As soon 

 as the season ended the sheets were taken off 

 the horse, his coat was allowed to get rough 



and his com was stopped. In the course of 



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