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stale in themselves, and perhaps fall amiss con- 

 stitutionally. 



At the time of my early days in the stables, I 

 have known all the above circmnstances occasion- 

 ally to have happened in the working and feeding 

 of different horses. Nor have I any hesitation in 

 acknowledging that such things have now and 

 then occurred to myself at the time of my having 

 horses to feed and work under my own directions ; 

 and this it is which has induced me to be so 

 explicitly minute as to the precautionary mea- 

 sures I conceive are necessary to be strictly ob- 

 served by those of my readers who may be en- 

 gaged in the training of horses to run. I will 

 here give a good old-fashioned maxim, and which 

 should never be lost sight of in the feeding and 

 working of race horses — that the horses should 

 love both their food and their work ; I mean by 

 this, they should go cheerfully to both, for, as 

 the one ever governs the other, if they are over- 

 marked by either, they cannot come out in their 

 best form to post. 



Chaff being manger food, we will here make a 

 remark or two on its being given to race horses. 

 It should be cut from the very best and sweetest 



