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detect these injuries in their recent and remediable state. Tiiey are un- 

 known, and slighted by custom, until they forcibly make themselves 

 known to be incurable. 



Whilst recommending moderation in sweating the Racehorse, and 

 indeed, a total discontinuance of the practice, in certain cases, I little 

 hoped that I should be listened to, or that such ideas of innovation would 

 ever find place or encouragement, in the minds of grooms andjockies; 

 and my surprize was both considerable and pleasant, to observe, in that 

 most extraordinary performance, the "Genius Genuine" of the late well- 

 known Samuel Chifiiey, that he was, in this affair, of nearly a similar 

 opinion with myself. If there is much extravagance and conceit in 

 Chifney's book, and if he refine beyond his knowledge and powers or 

 reflection, it must yet be conceded, that he was an excellent practical 

 judge of his profession, whether with respect to training or riding, and 

 that he has given many hints of great importance to those noblemen 

 and gentlemen, who venture their property in the hazardous .specula- 

 tions of the turf 



But take the opinion of Chifney in his own words, " It is destruc- 

 tion to Horses to sweat them in the manner they are sweated at New- 

 market, as the practice there is to sweat them once in six days, and some 

 times oftener ; and between those days of sweatiug, it is usual lor the 

 Horse, to go out twice a day, each time having strong exercise. In 

 these sweating days the Horses are mostly covered with cloths, two 

 or three times doubled, and go in their sweats six miles, more or less, 

 and at times go tolerably fast. Directly the Horse pulls up, he is hur- 

 ried into the stable, which is on the spot for that purpose. As soon as 

 he gets in, there is often more clothes thrown upon him, in addition to 

 those he has been sweat in. This is done to make the Horse sweat the 

 more, and he stands thus for a time, panting before he is stripped for 

 scraping ; that with being thus worked, clothed, and stoved, it so affects 

 iiim at times, that he keeps breaking out in fresh sweats, that it pours 

 from him, when scraping, as if water had been thrown on him. Nature 

 cannot bear this. The Horses must dwindle. 



" I think, in the first place, that the Horse has been too long at this 

 sort of work lor his sinews, then the clothing and stoving him, forces his 



juices 



