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PRATT S POINTERS ON THE HORSE 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE COLT. 



Careful attention must be given to the colt from 

 the time of its birth. It should have proper stabling, 

 good food, and exercise, be accustomed to handling 



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NEGI^ECTED COI,T. 



from the first and not excited or frightened. As the 

 colt is reared, so the horse will be ; and no good horse 

 can be raised from a neglected colt. 



STABLINQ I '^^^ ^^^^ should not run with the mare, 

 I but be kept in a paddock in favorable 



weather with access to a good box stall, in which it 

 should always be confined at night. The paddock must 



