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juices from hiii], in such quantities as must destroy their spirits, streno-th, 

 and speed; and much clothing jades Horses. A Horse don't meet 

 with this destruction when he runs, for then he is hkely to be hghter in 

 his carcase, hghter in his feet, having plates on, not shoes, which is won- 

 derfully in favour of his sinews ; and lie is without cloths, and not 

 stoved, and his course in running is very seldom more than four miles; 

 therefore, this difference in sweating and running is immense. 



" When a Horse pulls up from his running, he has time given him to 

 move gently in the air, and is usuaHy scraped out upon the turf, and by 

 these means, the Horse perspires no more than suits his nature. 



" Horses should have different brakes against weather, to scrape in. 

 Buildings for this, I think, would be most proper, made after the Horse- 

 dealers rides in London; open in front, being out of the Aveather, and 

 not out of the air. Places of this sort, would be much best for Horses 

 to saddle in, for Horses saddling in those close, dark stables, they, at 

 times, break out with great perspiration, when saddling ; and in fine, in 

 room}' places of this sort, there would be proper room. See. for noble- 

 men and gentlemen sportsmen, to command a siglit of the Horses at 

 saddling, and Horses are less timid, being in a croud, than they are to hear 

 it, and not see it. 



" When a Horse is first taken into work, after having had a long rest, 

 his carcase is then large and heavy, and the practice is to put more 

 clothes upon the Horse, and order him to go a longer sweat. But the 

 Horse, in this stage of his training, is the less able to bear more clothes, 

 and go farther in his sweats ; for the Horse himself being heavy, that, 

 with body and clothes, at times, has a great weight upon his legs ; that 

 with this pressure and his work heating him, it makes his sinews full 

 and weak ; and thus working a little too fast or too long upon his sinews 

 at one stretch, they are forced out of their places. This once done, the 

 Horse seldom stands training after. 



" It is ignorant cruelty in the great number of Horses being thus un- 

 skilfully lamed at Newmarket, and gentlemen not only lose the use of 

 their Horses and their money by it, but it so greatly deprives tjiem of 

 their sport, that they otherwise would have." 



I am tarther happy to find, that my former sentiments upon two other 



very 



