192 WATERING HORSES WHILE IN TRAINING. 



coats are to be seen staring or standing- on 

 end; which is to be attributed rather to the ef- 

 fects of bad water on the constitutions of race 

 horses when travelling, than to the change of 

 either air, stables, or food. Such water as may 

 have been found to agree best with horses, and 

 which they may have been accustomed to take in 

 the neighbourhood in which they have been 

 trained, is of course the water to be depended on. 

 And under very particular circumstances, as a 

 horse being deeply engaged, or that has been so 

 well tried as to induce the owner to think he 

 might, barring an accident, win the Derby or 

 Leger, water might be sent on from the home 

 stable to the place where the horse may be en- 

 gaged to run. But this cannot well be done on 

 a general scale, in consequence of the incon- 

 venience and expense that would be incurred. 



