The family horse : its stabling, care and feedingA practical manual for horse-keepers . OOMING. A horse which is kept in the stable when it is not at work,requires frequent grooming or currying. It is to the stabledhorse, says Youatt, highly fed, and little or irregularly worked,that grooming is of the highest consequence. Good rubbing withthe brush or the currycomb opsns the pores of the skin, circulatesthe blood to the extremities of the body, produces free and healthyperspiration, and stands in the room of exercise. No horse will carrya fine coat, without either unnatural heat or dressing.
The family horse : its stabling, care and feedingA practical manual for horse-keepers . OOMING. A horse which is kept in the stable when it is not at work,requires frequent grooming or currying. It is to the stabledhorse, says Youatt, highly fed, and little or irregularly worked,that grooming is of the highest consequence. Good rubbing withthe brush or the currycomb opsns the pores of the skin, circulatesthe blood to the extremities of the body, produces free and healthyperspiration, and stands in the room of exercise. No horse will carrya fine coat, without either unnatural heat or dressing. They botheffect the same purpose, but the first does it at the expense of healthand strength ; while the second, at the same time that it produces aglow on the skin and a determination of the blood to it, rouses allthe energies of the frame. It would be well for the proprietor of thehorse if he were to insist, and to see that his orders are really obey-ed, that the fine coat in which he and his groom so much delight, isproduced by honest rubbing, and not by a heated stable and thick. Fig. 42.—CURRYCOMB. clothing, and, most of all, not by stimulating or injurious horse should be regularly dressed every day, in addition tothe giooming that is necessary after work. To which HenryWilliam Herbert adds : It is true in a measure, that the neces-sity of regular dressing, wisping, currying, brushing, and hard rub-bing is far greater in the case of highly pampered horses, fed in themost stimulating manner, principally on giain, kept in hot stables,always a little above their work, and ready at all times to jump outof their skins from the exuberance of their animal spirits ; yet it isnecessary to all housed and stabled horses ; and the farmer, no lessthan the owner of fast trotters, will find his advantage in having hishorse curried and washed before feeding in the morning, in the in- STABLE MANAGEMENT 61 creased play of his spirit, and in the gayety and fitness of the ani-ma
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