CHAPTEK IV. 



DAILY EOUTINE IN TRAINING. 



DURING the training months, the syces should be up 

 nearly an hour before daylight, and should give each 

 of the horses a little water, say, two or three pints, 

 and from one to one and a half pounds of corn, which 

 quantity may be increased to two pounds, if the 

 animals are to be kept out longer than three hours. 

 When this is eaten, the clothing worn at night should 

 be taken off, the coats wisped over, and smoothened 

 down with a towel, the manes and tails set straight, 

 the eyes, muzzles, and docks sponged out, and fresh 

 clothing put on according to the weather. The horses 

 are now taken to the exercising ground, and are kept 

 walking for fully an hour, so that they may empty 

 themselves, and then they get their work, fast or slow, 

 as the case may be. In some racing stables in England, 

 the horses that go out early in the morning, say, at six 

 o'clock, during the hot days of summer, get nothing 

 before starting ; while in others, they have a very 

 small feed. The advocates of the former system aver 

 that their animals, being empty, are in the best possible 

 condition for getting work, and that nothing is gained 

 by feeding them at that time. If we may reason from 

 our own cases, we may assume that the horse in 

 India finds his chhotee haziree both agreeable and 



