POOP, AND HOURS OF FEEDING. l,M 



to the amount of a cutcha seer the custom with 

 some turfmen, who always muzzle at night is not a 

 good practice, unless for such a voracious feeder as 

 requires to be fed six times a-day ; and then, after be- 

 ing muzzled all night, it may be necessary. An hour 

 before would, even then, be better than daybreak, 

 If an English training groom feeds early in the morn- 

 ing, the exercise does not follow so soon after as it 

 does in India ; but there are as many little variations 

 in different stables at home as there are in this country; 



MUZZLE, WHEX REQUIRED, LEATHER^ DHOOL, ETC. 



If at any time during training, notwithstand- 

 ing the old bedding being uppermost, you find 

 he eats some of it, either during the day or 

 night, after you have allowed a fair quantity of good 

 grass, the muzzle, annoying as it is to some horses, 

 must be used, tut not put on till after nine, and then 

 something must always be given at or before day- 

 break. In this case, however, you probably com- 

 menced training before he was properly in condition ; 

 for the appetite of a nealthy norse is mostly moder- 

 ate both for dry grass and water, and he can scarcely 

 contract the nabit of feecfing too greedily on either 

 the one or the other, while under this regular regi- 

 men of training. The circular tarreled, large-carcas- 

 ed, strong horse, is more liable to overeat on grass 

 than the light carcased ; the last description frequent- 

 ly will not eat enough. Sometimes a horse will eat 

 half his allowance of evening's grass by ten o'clock, 

 and not touch it again till just before daybreak, and 

 then fill himself : this should be discovered, and pre- 

 vented by the muzzle being put on at two or three 



