PROLONGED EXERCISE HURTFUL. Y7 



were enough at first, because it is less the continuance of 

 an exercise than its being properly done that perfects 

 the execution of it. Besides, as this pace requires a con- 

 siderable displacement of forces, and as the animal will 

 have been already subjected to a rather painful exercise, 

 it would be dangerous to prolong it beyond the time I 

 mention. The horse will lend himself more willingly to 

 your efforts when nicely managed, and of short duration ; 

 his intelligence, becoming familiar with this efficient pro- 

 gression, will hasten success. He will submit himself 

 calmly and without repugnance to work in which there 

 will be nothing painful to him, and we will be able thus 

 to push his education to the farthest limits, not only 

 without injury to his physical organization, but in restor- 

 ing to their normal state organs that a forced exercise 

 might have weakened. This regular development of all 

 the organs of tfie horse will not only give him grace, 

 but also strength and health, and will thus prolong his 

 existence, whde increasing a hundredfold the delights of 

 the true horseman. 



