136 TRAINING. 



half an hour before daybreak, two hours before the 

 gallop, would be very serviceable to many horses, 

 even when muzzled at ten or twelve o'clock. Three 

 quarters of a pound of gram, or wheat-flour, with 

 three quarters of a drachm of ginger, two drachms of 

 anise-seed, and one ounce of ghoor, baked up toge- 

 ther into a large thick ap, can be given instead. The 

 following recipe will make good bread, which the 

 horse will in time grow fond of, if habituated to it 

 by very slow degrees, daily giving a small bit when 

 hungry : Wheat-flour and gram-flour, of @ach%hree 

 pounds ; finely-powdered anise-seed, two ounces ; fine- 

 ly-powdered ginger, one ounce ; ghoor, three ounces, 

 Add the whites of a dozen eggs, well beaten together, 

 and as much beer, well up, as will knead it. Bake in 

 an oven into three loaves, and commence giving when 

 one day old. 



BANDAGING, 



Training the legs, it appears evident, from the fat- 

 ness so generally observable about the lower parts, is 

 fully as difficult as training the body ; but if the lat- 

 ter has been properly physicked, yet not over-phy- 

 sicked, the feet kept properly short, and stopped^ 

 and the strong galloping not too hastily introduced, 

 the legs may be brouht out as clean and wiry, and 

 the fetlocks as smooth and undented, as during the 

 first canter. 



Flannel bandages to the legs are undoubtedly of 

 great benefit, inasmuch as cold applications strength- 

 en the sinews, and keep the legs fine, but the wetting 

 of the bandages every hour annoys the horse and dis- 

 turbs his rest, and lying down is of greater benefit to 



