106 HINTS TO horsemen; oe, 



is not a bit more agreeable to horse than man ; in- 

 deed, I quite believe the former is more shaken by it 

 than the latter. 



There are many horses most unpleasantly fidgetty 

 while hounds are drawing. I have seen many who 

 have worked themselves into a far greater sweat in 

 such cases than would have been produced by any 

 ordinary run ; this in some horses arises from nervous- 

 ness, in others that have been severely and unfairly 

 ridden, from downright apprehension of what they 

 may expect ; and to shew to what extent this will 

 influence some horses, I had one that had been so 

 ridden, and can assure the reader that, for months 

 after I bought him, if by chance I went into the 

 stable with a red coat on, he would fidget for an hour 

 or two afterwards ; by degrees this wore off, and he 

 became, even with hounds, as quiet as a naturally- 

 excitable animal could be. There are two things to 

 be done with such horses — the one is, let the horse 

 be very gently ridden every day, if possible, with 

 harriers, just walking, trotting, or cantering about, 

 so as to keep him within hearing of them ; this will 



