3X6 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



refreili his limbs, while the night air, and morn- 

 ing dews will invigorate his body ? — Some never 

 phyfic their hunters ; only obferving, when they 

 firfl take them up from grafs, to work them 

 gently : ibme turn out thcir's all the year. It is 

 not unufual for fuch as follow the latter method, 

 to ph}fic their horfes at grafs ; they then are taken 

 tip, well icd, and properly exerciied to get them 

 into order ; this done, they are turned out for a 

 few hours every day when they arc not ridden. 

 The pafture fhould be dry, and fhould have but 

 little grafs ; there they will flreteh their limbs, 

 and cool their bodies, and will take as much ex- 

 crcife as is neceflary for them. I have remarked, 

 that thus treated they catch fev/er colds, have the 

 ufc of their limbs more freely, and are Icfs liable 

 to lamenefs than other horfes. Another ad- 

 vantage attends this method, which, in the horfes 

 you ride yourfelf, you will allow to be very mate- 

 rial : — your horfe, when once he is in order, will 

 require lefs ftrong exercife than grooms generally 

 give their horfes ; and Ins mouth, in all proba- 

 bilily, will not be the worle for it. 



The Earl of Pembroke, in his Military Equi- 

 tation, is, I lind, of the fame opinion ; he tells 

 lis, — '* It is of the greatefl confequence for horfes 

 *' to be kept clean, regularly fed, and as regularly 

 " exerciied : but whoever choofes to ride in the 

 *' w a\- of cafe and pleafure, without any fatigue 



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