82 TREATMENT OF HORSES, &C. 



prevent their being so, they may have bran 

 mashes given them, as occasion may require. 



As these horses take less work in training, con- 

 sequently, on their return to the home stables, in 

 autumn, they will not require the artificial aid of 

 physic, until they go again into training in the 

 spring, unless they may have become stale in 

 themselves and on their legs^ by repeated run- 

 ning, and then a couple of doses to commence 

 with will be sufficient, keeping a dose or two in 

 reserve, until they have done a certain portion of 

 their work. 



We have now made such arrangements as we 

 conceive necessary to be attended to, with respect 

 to the first class of horses, whether they have to 

 lie by in boxes, or to be daily exercised during 

 the winter months, when they are out of training. 



