SUMMER TREATMENT. 17 
the horses do not leave the stable, unless there be a race near 
at hand, when of course exercise is a necessity. On Sundays 
the process is pretty much the same as on week-days ; except 
that there is no exercising, and labour is in other ways mini- 
mised as far as practicable. (On exercise in wet or fogg 
weather, and on the undesirability of Sunday work, I shall 
have something to say in treating of “ Preparation.”) 
After every feeding, all the corn that is not eaten should be 
removed and the manger thoroughly cleaned. The offal hay 
should be treated in the same way. It should be removed, 
and may be given to the hacks or to the cows. By adopting 
this method, horses will sometimes be tempted to eat : whilst 
nothing will induce them to look at, much less to touch, food 
that has once been blown upon. If horses do not eat they 
cannot be expected to work; and it is certain they cannot, in 
such circumstances, do sufficient work to enable them to 
compete against others thoroughly exercised. 
In summer, the horses undergo a different treatment, which 
runs pretty much as follows :— 
The stable hour is 4 a.m., when they are fed, and after the 
preliminary matters are duly attended to, the morning horses 
are exercised from five until seven or half-past, as they may 
require respectively less or more work. On the return they are 
done up as has been described in the account of the winter 
management. The breakfast hour for the boys is 8.30 a.m. ; 
and at nine o'clock the other horses are taken out to exercise, 
returning about eleven. The cleaning is finished by noon, 
when they are watered and fed. At this time the other horses 
are again cleaned, watered and fed, and all are done up with 
hay. They will rest until 4 p.m., when the morning horses are 
again exercised for an hour; some are cantered once or twice, 
whilst others are only walked for that or a shorter time. (By 
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