24 THE HORSE : ITS KEEP AND MANAGEMENT. 



not, as the horse will leave it at the bottom of the manger. 

 When a horse is going on a journey, either saddle or in 

 harness, and is going to run at the rate of eight or more miles 

 an hour first thing in the morning, the animal should finish 

 its food half-an-hour at least before it starts. This makes a 

 great deal of difference to it. Many horses are driven too 

 fast, and it injures the animal's wind a good deal, in fact, 

 there are more horses have their wind broken in this way 

 than from any other cause. If a horse's stomach is full it 

 should be let go steadily for the first two miles, and allowed 

 to walk up all the hills. When care is taken in this respect 

 it does not hurt the horse's wind. But when on a long 

 journey, the horse should never be driven more than from 

 eight to twelve miles, without having a little water and a 

 mouthful of hay. My plan is to take a small nose bag 

 when on a long journey, and about every eight or ten miles 

 give the horse water with a mouthful or two of food. I do 

 not mean to say I put my horse in the stable every eight or 

 ten miles, but just put the nose-bag on and let him have a 

 httle as he stands. 



People injure their horses by driving from twenty to 

 thirty miles without giving the po©r beasts either a bit of 

 food or drop of water. I differ from the majority of people 

 as regards watering horses, but as this is an important 

 matter I am giving it a small chapter to itself. A horse 

 which does a great deal of fast running should always have 

 the best hay cut up into chaff, and nothing but the best 

 corn given it, as such an animal does not want blowing out 

 with a lot of hay. A horse which trots steadily should have 



