i86 THE CONDITION OF HUNTERS 



instance (well known to all country trainers) worked 

 it oft on the road from one country race to another, 

 but winning at both places. The dam of Sailor, as I 

 before mentioned, was obliged to stop a day on her 

 journey to sweat, such was her disposition to feed ; 

 whilst Mr Mytton's Euphrates never wore a setting 

 muzzle. When Major Pigot had York and Manti- 

 damun, he himself told me that the one horse had three 

 doses of physic in the same space of time that the 

 other had seventeen ! 



In a correspondence I have had with Mr Weedon, 

 my Lord Plymouth's groom, on the subject of sweating 

 hunters in the month of September, he very properly 

 observes, that in such matters " no given rule can be 

 laid down which is not liable to some exceptions " ; 

 but in general, he tells me, he sweats his horses twice 

 a week. " This I do," said he "in soft ground, with 

 as little clothing as I can help, except when a horse 

 happens to be very stout, and then I think more 

 clothes necessary. These points," added he, " must 

 be regulated by the groom, who ought to study the 

 different constitutions of the animals, and give them 

 exercise suited to their strength," These are Mr 

 Weedon's own words on this essential point ; and the 

 reader will find they are much in unison with what 

 I have hitherto said on the subject, which from so 

 good a judge I cannot but consider as a compliment. 



On the method of sweating hunters, Mr Weedon 

 makes the following observation : — " As to the method 

 of sweating hunters, some think it immaterial ; but 

 I consider it the most safe to ride them singly. But 



