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modities best calculated to strengthen and develop his 

 muscular system, brace his tendons, and generally add 

 to his bone power. If this matter is neglected he 

 will generally evolve into a mean-spirited, ill-thriven 

 horse. 



Some breeders keep their colts shamefully lean 

 through pure ignorance of their proper treatment, 

 with the result that they have delicate constitutions 

 and are utterly unfit to make their mark in any special 

 way. Giving colts an insufficient quantity of food, or 

 food of an inferior quality, may appear cheap at the 

 time, but in the end it is very false economy as will 

 be proved by the stunted growth of the colts. 



INCIDENT OF A POOR COLT. 



We have heard of a celebrated Irishman who went 

 to look at a colt with the object of purchasing him. 

 The colt was very poor and ill-conditioned, and on 

 entering the paddock his owner remarked that he had 

 a number of excellent points about him, to which the 

 Irishman, with characteristic humour, replied: — "Sure 

 sor, it's all points he is together ; he's got such 

 moighty projections you could hang yer coat on any 

 av thim ! " 



EVILS OF RACING COLTS TOO YOUNG. 



We shall deviate for a little to say that the majority 

 of colts are raced when they are far too young. There 

 is no doubt that racing a colt at two years old means 

 ruining him almost before he has attained the age of 



