FEEDING HORSES IN TRAINING. 175 



to work and water tlie wliole of the horses while 

 they are in training; he is also to direct and 

 arrange the different departments allotted to 

 each of his assistants. Among them there should 

 be a quiet, steady man, and experienced in the 

 training of horses. This is the person who 

 should be placed next in authority to the prin- 

 cipal trainer, and to whom the feeding of the 

 whole of the horses (if the number of them is to 

 the extent I have mentioned) is to be intrusted. 

 It occasionally happens that a horse will now 

 and then go off his feed — a thing which, when it 

 occurs, is of course immediately to be reported 

 to the principal trainer; for, as at the time of 

 their being out on the downs, he works and 

 waters the horses, he may at once be able to 

 account for such a circumstance. A flighty horse 

 may go off his feed from the boy and horse not 

 agreeing as they ought, while out at exercise, as, 

 the boy may in some measure have been too se- 

 vere with such horse, and alarmed him; or, a 

 hearty horse may have gone off his feed from 

 being rather over-marked in his work; or, a 

 gluttonous horse may, in his strong work, have 

 been kept too short of water, which may 

 have caused him to refuse his corn. No mat- 

 ter from what cause it arises, it is a circum- 



