The condition of hunters : their choice and management . a quarter-sheet and breast-plate, with a single hood. She was once walkedaround a fallow field (fresh rolled and dragged) ofsixteen acres, just to enable her to throw off someof her meat. She trotted three times around it, andcantered twice. She then walked home, about aquarter of a mile, to her stable, where (as it rained)she was scraped. I stood by with my watch in myhand, and in twelve minutes her neck was dry. Atthe expiration of nineteen minutes she was dry allover, having been well wisped ; and, after walking 174 THE CONDITION OF H
The condition of hunters : their choice and management . a quarter-sheet and breast-plate, with a single hood. She was once walkedaround a fallow field (fresh rolled and dragged) ofsixteen acres, just to enable her to throw off someof her meat. She trotted three times around it, andcantered twice. She then walked home, about aquarter of a mile, to her stable, where (as it rained)she was scraped. I stood by with my watch in myhand, and in twelve minutes her neck was dry. Atthe expiration of nineteen minutes she was dry allover, having been well wisped ; and, after walking 174 THE CONDITION OF HUNTERS out for a quarter of an hour, she was brought in anddressed. In an hour she was shut up, having hadhalf a pail of tepid water, and her corn. It must be observed that the mare in question isvery forward in her condition, otherwise she wouldnot have dried so soon. It was only her secondsweat, but it ran off her like rain water. She wassoiled, at different times, in the summer, but neverlay out, and has had a course of alteratives since LETTER XIII TREATMENT AFTER A HARD AND LONG RUN—CLIPPING THE cock was sacred to ^Esculapius, by reasonof his extreme vigilance. In a former letterI have observed that one of the chiefpoints on which a groom has to exercisehis judgment is, in being apt to discover whether ahorse be over-marked after a severe days work withhounds. I have already detailed the directing symp-toms of this too frequent occurrence ; but althoughI have stated what I have found, by my own experi-ence, to be the best way of treating him after whatI have termed a very hard day, yet I have notmentioned what I consider to be the most effectualmeasures to be adopted when his life appears indanger. A bad horse will seldom lose it in thishonourable way ; but a good one, not properly pre-pared, will too often go till he dies. When a horse is very much exhausted after a longrun with hounds, a noise will sometimes be heardto proceed from his inside, which is ofte
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