130 Stable Management. 



stables. And why ? Simply from the fact 

 that animals there are fed, worked, or exercised 

 with the clock. If these principles pervaded 

 the minds of those who keep and work, or drive 

 carriage, cart, and cab horses, there would be 

 less of those serious consequences which so often 

 arise and mar the prospects. A young man in the 

 racing or hunting stable, goes through a kind of 

 apprenticeship, by which he becomes au fait at 

 his duties, and habits of regularity are enforced. 

 If coachmen and grooms in general had such 

 training always, we should find that stable man- 

 agement in our towns and villages would be 

 a question upon which there would be but lit- 

 tle to condemn. In no other horse establish- 

 ments is there such wanton waste and careless- 

 ness, or where the results are more inconvenient 

 and harassing. 



In hunting and racing stables the morning 

 hour is from five to six o'clock. The horses are 

 to be fed and watered, bedding turned up, and 

 stables swept. Those animals going to work are 

 next thoroughly dressed, and afterwards receive 

 a small feed of corn if their work is likely to be 

 hard and time will permit. Others merely 

 going for exercise are wiped over and taken out 

 for the prescribed time, and on their return 

 receive a little hay, are clothed, have their feet 

 examined and washed, and by this time is the 

 hour for breakfast. 



The grooms on their return to the stable dress 



