SWEATING. 191 



(which he generally will by the third sweating- 

 time, if in condition before the training was 

 commenced, and you are not sweating too hastily,) 

 and that sweat is like water, and he dries quickly 

 after scraping, he is getting into prime trim, 

 and will go on well without any more.* 



* To train a horse suddenly up to the best of his mark 

 the time will admit of, that is not in condition, but all soft 

 flesh, needs a man that has seen a good deal, reflected a 

 good deal, and has great confidence in his own knowledge ; 

 for, as mentioned under, " Time Required to Train," p. 159, 

 he is so very liable to grow stale, or go off his feed, or to injure 

 his legs. After the mild dose of physic, sweating must here be 

 commenced, as well as concluded with, if at all too fleshy, 

 so as to get some of the useless fat out of both the inside and 

 outside, before taking the stronger gallops. When brought 

 home after a morning's sweat, extra clothes, contrary to what 

 is stated above, are to be put over him for a quarter of an 

 hour or more, until he sweats freely in the stall, — in this 

 fleshy case it is necessary, for it acts as a protection against 

 illness ; — and when scraped down and dried, a fresh single 

 set of blanket jhools is to be immediately put on, a small 

 cordial given, and also half a gallon of luke-warm water of- 

 fered : ten minutes after, he is to be taken out to have another 

 quarter or half mile canter, and then brought in for the 

 regular grooming to proceed. The time for commencing these 

 sweats, the quantity of clothes that he ought to sweat in, the 

 pace that he is to go at, and the length of the sweats, are all 

 difficult affairs to manage properly, for the flesh cannot be 

 taken off too suddenly even in the stall, and the untrained 

 legs will not stand it being taken off in the gallop: on the 

 whole, I would not risk the chance of injury to a favourite 

 horse by this hasty training, however good the stakes might 



