CHAPTER III 



FOOD DUEING TEAINING 



As the subject of food has been fully discussed in Part I. 

 on Horse Management, I shall treat on it here only as 

 far as it relates to training for racing. If oats can be 

 procured heavy enough, they are generally the best grain 

 on which to train, although maize and bran (p. 77), may 

 be equally good. In England, old horses, whose powers of 

 assimilation are somewhat impaired, are often allowed, 

 with good results, a small proportion of beans, or half 

 beans and half peas, with their corn, in order to increase 

 the nutrient value of the food, as the measure of a horse's 

 appetite is more by bulk than by weight. With our light 

 Indian oats, one part of gram to one of bran and three of 

 corn will be found to be a good general division. The 

 same proportion of kulthec and oats may be used. Boiled 

 urud may be substituted for hulthee. If oats be not 

 procurable, parched barley and gram may be given. 



Beans peas, gram, hMthee, and urud are very similar 

 in their composition, and barley closely resembles oats. 

 These grains differ, however, in their action on the diges- 

 tive organs, beans having a constipating tendency, while 

 both gram and barley have the opposite effect. 



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