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inside fat must be inconvenient to the breeding 

 female of any animal kind. I once saw two ex- 

 tremes in the state of brood mares, not a hundred 

 miles from Newmarket : those of one person were 

 like fat prize cattle, those belonging to the other 

 looked as if they had carried Don Quixote ; 

 starveling foals could but be expected from the 

 latter, and as such they shewed. I suppose the 

 same penurious treatment was persevered in with the 

 yearlings, who looked gaunt as hungry wolves ; 

 while, on the other hand, the produce I saw of the 

 fat mares, though pretty, playful, and healthy, were 

 certainly small; whether they afterwards grew 

 into full-sized colts, I had not the opportunity of 

 ascertaining. 



Foals and colts should be liberally fed, but fed on 

 the same principle as their dams — that is, be 

 supplied with food of such quality, and in such 

 quantity, as to render them cheerful, playful, and in 

 the highest state of constitutional vigour, but not 

 in such abundance as to produce habitual craving 

 and gross appetites — still less, so as to give them 



