SUMMER TREATMENT. 17 



the horses do not leave the stable, unless there be a race near 

 at hand, when of course exercise is a necessity. On Sundays 

 the process is pretty much the same as on week-days ; except 

 that there is no exercising, and labour is in other ways mini- 

 mised as far as practicable. (On exercise in wet or foggy 

 weather, and on the undesirability of Sunday work, I shall 

 have something to say in treating of " Preparation.") 



After every feeding, all the corn that is not eaten should be 

 removed and the manger thoroughly cleaned. The offal hay 

 should be treated in the same wa}'. It should be removed, 

 and may be given to the hacks or to the cows. By adopting 

 this method, horses will sometimes be tempted to eat : whilst 

 nothing v;ill induce them to look at, much less to touch, food 

 that has once been blown upon. If horses do not eat they 

 cannot be expected to work ; and it is certain they cannot, in 

 such circumstances, do sufficient work to enable them to 

 compete against others thoroughly exercised. 



In summer, the horses undergo a different treatment, which 

 runs pretty much as follows : — 



The stable hour is 4 a.m., when they are fed, and after the 

 preliminary matters are duly attended to, the morning horses 

 are exercised from five until seven or half-past, as they may 

 require respectively less or more work. On the return they are 

 done up as has been described in the account of the winter 

 management. The breakfast hour for the boys is 8.30 a.m. ; 

 and at nine o'clock the other horses are taken out to exercise, 

 returning about eleven. The cleaning is finished by noon, 

 when they are watered and fed. At this time the other horses 

 are again cleaned, watered and fed, and all are done up with 

 hay. They will rest until 4 p.m., when the morning horses are 

 again exercised for an hour ; some are cantered once or twice, 

 whilst others are only walked for that or a shorter time. (By 



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