128 TRAINING. 



and a sufficient quantity of it laid in for the four 

 months, that no change may take place in the quali- 

 ty. When the gram, or barley, are very hard, give 

 them an extra turn in the grinding-stone, but do not 

 moisten the grain. If too greedy a feeder, and any 

 should be voided whole, chop one map of Huryoli 

 grass very small into it at each feed, and also add 

 one map of bran mash,* for the rule is now, in a 

 measure, to be reversed ; the grain must be propor- 

 tioned to the exercise, and, therefore, everything must 

 be tried to make mastication and digestion go on 

 well. He should love both his food and his work, 

 then he will thrive. Three drachms of rock or two 

 of black salt, in every feed, is useful in training to 

 all kinds of horses : begin with less. You must be 

 careful to distinguish the difference between a poor 

 feeder and a little eater : the horse that eats the lit- 

 tle set before him with an appetite, increases in 

 stamina, and keeps his flesh on, is no weak-constitu- 

 tioned horse, and you should not give to such a one 

 more than he actually requires. The dung should 

 always fall in balls at the commencement of training, 

 and you should endeavour to keep it of the consis- 

 tence of cow-dung the whole time ; but the high 

 feeding and strong galloping, and the nature of gram 

 itself, renders it very difficult, and, towards the last 

 month, almost impossible to do so. Boiled coltee, 

 one feed a day, is good for horses that are naturally 



* If he has a natural dislike to bran, even this handful must not be given, 

 or it may have an opposite effect, and induce him to swallow down the grain 

 still more greedily, in order to get rid of the taste of the bran. This would 

 not be the case, when gram or barley is given while putting into condition all 

 boiled and mixed with the bran ; then he would be obliged, more or less, to 

 masticate the grain. A handful of linseed-meal, if not disliked, may be tried 

 in each feed for this purpose, in lieu of the bran, and it is preferable. 



