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so give them to your horse. When these are spent 

 prepare another quantity in the same manner. 

 This food is light of digestion, and very good for 

 his wind." 



The above all reads somewhat fantastic, but I 

 should be sorry to say off-hand that there is nothing 

 in it, though in my own experience the best results 

 have been obtained by feeding horses on their 

 natural food, the best of hay and corn, with green 

 food at the proper time. It is very clear, however, 

 that before railways existed, training horses was 

 done to a great extent on the road, travelling from 

 one meeting to another. The authority already 

 quoted says in regard to a " Running Horse " : 



'' Give him moderate exercise morning and 

 evening, and let him know no other violence than 

 in his courses only." 



In other words, let him gallop " for t' Brass," 



when he does gallop ; and with a horse constantly 



travelling on the roads as they used to 



"fort' do, one can readily understand that 



Br&ss " 



such advice was sound. Moreover, the 

 horses themselves and the class of races they ran 

 for were absolutely different from those of the 

 present day. Thus, The Sportsman's Dictionary^ 

 under the heading " Race-horse," says : 



