THE TUB*. 
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be consulted. After physic, and after 
they begin to do rather better work, and in 
about two months before their first engagement i \nmem 
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generally four miles for horses fixnr years old and 
upwards. After their last sweat, the jockeys who are 
to ride them generally give them a good gallop, by way 
of feeling their mouths and rousing them, for dey are 
apt to become shifty, as it is termed, with frijr, wi 
have not sufficient power over them. The act of 
wealing die raee-horse is always a course of anxiety to 
his trainer, and particnkrly so on die eve of a gnat 
race for which he may be a favourite. The great 
weight of dothes with which he is laden is always 
dangerous, and often fatal, to his legs, and there it 
generally a spy at hand, to ascertain whether he pulls 
op sound or lame. Some nonsense has been written by 
the author of a late work*, about omitting sweating in 
the process of training ; but what would the Chifneys 
say to dais ! They are acknowledged pre-eminent in 
die art, but they are also acknowledged to be very 
severe perhaps too much so with their horses in 
their work ; and, widkoat sweating them in clothes, they. 
would find it nuininij to be much more so thT they 
are. It is quite certain, that noises cannot nee without 
doing severe work ; but the main point to be attended 
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