THE COACH-HORSE. 



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to contend with is, that if his master is at home he dare not 

 give the horses too many hours' exercise in the morning for 

 fear he should be ordered out in the afternoon and have a long 

 journey before him. Very often the master may say that he 

 does not think he will want the horses to-morrow, and the 

 groom accordingly gives them their exercise ; but at the last 

 moment there comes some invitation, some necessity to go to 

 a distant railway station, or some cause which brings the horses 

 out when it has been understood that they will not be needed 



It is a 

 remarkable 

 fact how 

 wonderfully 

 regular exer- 

 cise agrees 

 with a horse. 

 We have 

 seen horses 

 low in condi- 

 tion, others 

 too fat, some 

 as lean as 

 herrings, put 

 on to a stage 

 coach, and 

 you may al- 

 most say be- 

 fore a month, certainly before two months, after they have been 

 doing their allotted work every day, barring perhaps one day in 

 four as rest, they will look as round as dray-horses, and yet be 

 in the hardest possible condition. This is why those horses 

 generally look better than the gentlemen's horses whose work 

 is so irregular. 



For gentlemen who have first-class coachmen living with 

 them, or whose coach-horses are under a good hunting groom, it 

 is unnecessary to dilate upon the question of grooming. But there 



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Well strapped every day. 



