PRIVATE TRAINING STABLES. /O 



kept strictly in their own class. Mares should also be 

 kept in their own class, not only in their own class 

 in regard to their constitutions and tempers, but there 

 should be no horses -standing in the same stable with 

 them, as mares are often enough horsing, out of tem- 

 per, and off their feed, without being made more so, 

 by being put to stand in the same stables with the 

 horses. Any craving mares that do well in loose 

 boxes, should be kept in them ; those that are restless 

 and flighty when 'alone, should be kept in stall-stables. 



It was formerly the custom, not only to put horses 

 • and mares in the same stable together, but it was also 

 usual to work them together in the same class, without 

 paying sufficient attention to their various constitutions 

 and tempers; and when, from such improper treat- 

 ment, delicate horses or mares have gone off their feed, 

 it was usual with the trainer to stop their work. 



This is a bad practice, and should be abandoned. 

 If anything of this sort, through an oversight, does 

 take place, the cause should be immediately removed, 

 by removing the horse from the class in which he is 

 not able to work; and the manner of bringing him 

 again to his feed, I expect is not entirely forgotten by 

 competent training grooms; at least I hope they do 

 not deviate from the good old system (in this one par- 

 ticular) of arranging the feeding of their horses in 

 such a manner, that the whole of them feed well at all 

 times, (unless when sick,) according to their different 

 constitutions. Of the constitutions and tempers of 

 horses, and how different horses are to be fed, watered, 



