180 FEEDING HORSES IN TRAINING. 



the day. The very strong constitutioned horses 

 are mostly mclined to eat a great quantity of 

 corn, which, to a certain extent, is necessary, not 

 only with a view to nourish and strengthen them, 

 for they should be liberally fed, but with a view 

 to prevent them, as much as possible, from eating 

 too much hay, or, what is still worse, and which 

 many of them will do, eat a great deal of their 

 litter. Yet, notwithstanding this, these horses 

 should not at all times be permitted voraciously 

 to gorge themselves, by having their corn given to 

 them in very large feeds. There are times when 

 a little relaxation from such high feeding would 

 not only be advisable, but beneficial ; as, for ex- 

 ample, on wet days, when the horses have to stop 

 in; on such days, those that are gluttonously in- 

 clined should have each feed diminished a little, 

 and, if not too near the time of their coming out 

 to run, they should have a good mash at night. 

 Indeed, if they were to have, at each stable 

 hour, as much corn as they could eat, most of 

 them, from being thus over-fed, would soon loathe 

 their food, in the same manner as they would, 

 from being over-worked, get sulky when at exer- 

 cise; if these horses were kept long in strong 

 work, merely because they are good feeders, they 

 would become not only stale on their legs, but 



