TWO CLASSES OF HORSES. 157 



I10^Y TO USE A HORSE. 



It is not, after all, every one who owns a horse that 

 knows how to use him, whether for his own pleasure or the 

 horse's, which is, in other words, the owner's best advan- 

 tage. Nor is it very easy to lay down rules how a horse 

 should be used, considering the many different purposes 

 for which horses are kept, the different natures and consti- 

 tutions of the animals, and the different circumstances of 

 their owners. 



Horses may, in general, be divided into two classes, — 

 those kept for work, and those kept for pleasure. In the 

 former class may be included fl^rm-horses, stage, coach and 

 omnibus hordes, team-horses, employed in the transporta- 

 tion of goods, and moving heavy and bulky masses, car- 

 men's horses, — and lastly, the road horses of all professional 

 men, who, like lawyers, doctors of medicine, and the like, 

 are compelled to drive or ride many hours per diem, regu- 

 larly, in the performance of their business. 



In the latter class may be included race-horses, match- 

 trotters, private gentlemen's saddle-horses, carriage horses, 

 or roadsters, and many other animals belonging to business 

 men, which being employed during half the time or more 

 in actual service, are used during spare hours on the road 

 for purposes of amusement. 



"With regard to the first class of these horses, the exigen- 

 cies of the business to which they are applied are, for the 

 most part, such as to supersede and override all rules. In 

 some cases the natural hours of the day and night have to 

 be reversed, and the animals are called upon to do their 

 work by night, and to rest and feed by day. Under these 

 circumstances it may be laid down as an immutable law, 

 that at wliatever hour the horses are to be worked, they 

 must have full time, beforehand, to digest their food and 

 water ; they must be carefully cleaned, and made comforta- 



