REMARKS ON THE CONDITION OF HUNTERS. 651 
We hope our readers will not find fault with us for the length 
of these extracts. They contain facts and truths, deduced from 
observation and experience, with which every veterinarian ought 
to be well acquainted. In risking the want of this practical 
sporting knowledge, he risks with one of his best customers— 
the fox-hunter—no less than his medical reputation: while, on 
the other hand, possessed of it, his employer will give him im¬ 
plicit credit for being a good veterinary practitioner. We have 
hardly a remark to make farther on these valuable extracts; unless 
it be, that we do not find our own mind so full of apprehensions 
of giving water on the morning of the hunting day, as sportsmen 
in general are known to be. If given—to double, or even treble 
the quantity prescribed by our author—at the hour and under 
the circumstances he particularizes, we should not ourselves 
look for any ill effects from it, knowing, as we do, how 
speedily the greater part of it will pass off through the kidneys. 
Five or six hours is a long interval for an animal of the nature of 
a horse to “ go without any thing we are inclined to think that 
he must feel somewhat languid from the fast by the time he is 
“ called upon” to commence his day’s work. 
The Stable , and Stable Management. 
“ I now come to the corner-stone of all condition in horses— 
stable, and stable management.” 
“ Horses are purchased in all places and at all times, but 
condition is not to be purchased with them ; for which reason 
he who wants to increase his stud, should always buy his horses 
in the spring of the year, having then the summer before him, 
in the course of which, if the animal is a sound one, his con¬ 
dition can be accomplished.” 
There are likewise other reasons. This being the season at 
which hunting ceases, hunters become more plentiful in the 
market, and cheaper than at other periods of the year : the 
sales at Tattersall’s give a greater choice also to purchasers. 
In August and September every cockney is running about in 
search of “ an hunter” for the “ ensuing season :” an old crafty 
sportsman will look about him in the spring. 
“ As no workman can work without good tools, so no groom, 
however good, can get a horse into condition without a good 
stable. In the first place, it must be dry; in the next, it must be 
warm. Iam aware that what I have to say on this subject 
will be objected to by some of the old and slow ones, who 
preach against the danger of hot stables ; but, for my own part, 
experience has led me to declare, that, so far from ever having- 
witnessed the ill effects of a hot stable, l never saw a hunter 
