188 WATERING HORSES 



and handsome in their carcasses, they will become 

 coarse and large in them. The best criterion for 

 a training groom to go by is, in the early part 

 of such horses' training, gradually to stint those 

 that are inclined at one time to drink larger por- 

 tions of water than may be proper for them, by 

 letting them take a few go-downs less, morning 

 and evening, until they begin to get a little off 

 their feed, when the stinting of their water 

 should be discontinued, and they should now be 

 allowed to drink more liberally until they feed as 

 they usually did. The groom is to bear in mind 

 the number of go-downs of water that any horses 

 may have taken less than they would have done 

 at the time were they allowed to take what they 

 chose out of the buckets, in order that, when 

 there is again a necessity for stinting them, he 

 may be better able to ascertain the quantity to 

 be diminished. The groom, by the above ar- 

 rangement in watering of gluttonous horses, can- 

 not well be led astray in the stinting of them, 

 at a time when he may be going to set them, 

 as when he wishes to send them a good pace in 

 their gallops, on the day before they may have 

 to sweat, or for a certain period of time previous 

 to their coming out to run» 



