ON FEEDING AND THE FOOD. 83 



DRIVING. 



" It may be generally remarked, that men who drive 

 last have swift horses; not that they drive fast because 

 they have swift horses, but because fast driving makes 

 horses swift. A horse may commonly be trained to a 

 dull and heavy, or to an airy and fleet gait. Nature 

 unquestionably does much, but education does far more to- 

 wards producing the great difference in the speed of 

 horses, than most men are willing to allow. Horses are 

 more frequently injured by driving them beyond their 

 habitual pace, than beyond their native power. 



The best direction for the education of horses is drive 

 fast, and stop often." 



ON FEEDING, AND THE FOOD. 



In adapting the quantity and quality of food to the wants 

 of each horse, regard must be paid first of all to the small 

 size of this animal's stomach, which affects all alike ; sec- 

 ondly, to the work for which he is designed ; and thirdly, 

 to the peculiar constitution of each horse. From the first 

 of these causes the horse must never be allowed to fast for 

 any long period if it can be possibly avoided, it being found 

 from experience that at the end of four hours his stomach 

 is empty, and the whole frame becomes exhausted, while 

 the appetite is frequently so impaired if he is kept fasting 

 for a longer period, that when food is presented to him it 

 will not be taken. From actual experience it has beon 

 shown that on a long journey, without a chance to feed 

 the animal, it exhausted him less to ride fast, and increase 

 the pace up to ten or even twelve miles an hour, and thus 

 reduce the time of fasting, than to dawdle over the ground 



