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in many liorse-masters is^ tliey work tlieir horses 

 too mucli when they want them^ but are not 

 careful that they get enough when they do not. 

 Such work as I advocate, namely, strong exercise, 

 raises the spirits from obvious reasons ; it braces 

 the nerves, invigorates the limbs, clears the wind, 

 and freshens the constitution. Such is the effect 

 a day^s proper exercise has on the hunter, while, 

 on the contrary, a day^s hunting produces tempo- 

 rary lassitude, prostration of the spirits and animal 

 powers : this will show the wide difference there 

 must be in the energy and condition of the horse 

 hunted once a week with proper exercise on the 

 intervening days, and the horse hunted twice, and 

 consequently prevented taking the work that 

 invigorates, and getting too often that which 

 enervates. 



Old fashioned sportsmen might say, ^' My horse 

 gets work enough when hunting, so let him rest 

 himself when he is not.^^ This might hold good 

 enough when horses hunted with slow hounds, 

 and were ridden perhaps twice a week. That 

 sort of work kept them speedy enough, and their 

 wind clear enough for the pace they were wanted 

 to go ; but it would be rather a novel system of 

 training if we were to walk, canter, and gallop 

 a race-horse for six or eight hours twice a week, 

 and leave him idle the remaining five, that he 

 might rest himself: it is as little to be expected 



