16 PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING AxND REARING. 



close stabling are not his native regimen. 

 If to stint a colt for the sake of saving 

 expense is bad economy, I consider the 

 opposite extreme little wiser. It may pay 

 to force a colt, as every young thing is 

 now forced, for an early market ; but if 

 the object be, as it should be, the rearing 

 of a sound, seviceable horse, which shall 

 perform his work in life well, and retain 

 his wondrous native vigour and spirit till 

 well on in years, I believe an observance 

 of these few broad and general principles 

 which I have here attempted to indicate, 

 to be highly advisable. 



