A bucket full of good wet clay is most useful in a stable. It is excellent for keeping the feet cool. If put on immediately there is any symptom of unusual heat, diseases of the feet may often be checked in the first instance.

An excellent treatment for polo ponies' legs after a hard game, and equally effective with horses that may have been galloped on hard going, is immediate application of hot-water bandages (a covering of oil silk will help to retain the heat), followed by clay plastered on the fore-legs one-third of an inch thick, and covered over with wet cold-water linen bandages, which can be left on for twenty-four hours with the bandages kept wet.

I had a bad case of sprained suspensory ligament that was treated with applications of wet clay throughout the summer. It was kept on permanently wet for three months. The horse's legs came out in the autumn like a two-year-old's, and he was never troubled again in that way.