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water. I have already spoken on the qualities 

 of water, and on such as may be most proper 

 for horses, as also the effects it has on their 

 constitutions when hard, and the remedies to be 

 adopted to soften it, so as to prevent as much 

 as possible any injury arising to the health of 

 race horses from a change of water, as when 

 they are travelling from their home stables to 

 others in a distant neighbourhood. (See Vol. I. 

 Chap. 6). 



Grooms cannot be too particular in their in- 

 quiries as to the quality of water at different inns 

 on the road, or at any of the stables which their 

 horses may have to stand in near to the course 

 it is intended they are to run over. Travelling 

 and change of air will occasionally alter horses 

 for the worse, notwithstanding every attention 

 may be paid to them. But what will still make 

 a much greater change in them is, their having 

 to drink bad water, such as hard pump-water, 

 drawn perhaps from very deep wells. Horses, 

 when in training, being accustomed to drink of 

 the most soft pure water, the effects of bad 

 water will be immediately evident ; however well 

 the chill may have been taken off such water, 

 they soon begin to tremble and shake, and their 



