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the third part of his race, to the great astonishment 

 of the trainer, who never dreams that such an event 

 to take place from too much as well as too little pre- 

 vious sweating. 



Mr. Richard Lawrence recommends that the ex- 

 ercise should be regular, moderate, and of sufficient 

 duration. " Thus, for instance," says he, " the horse 

 might be ridden gently for a few minutes with his 

 clothes on ; by which time the circulation of the blood 

 would be so much increased as to resist any ill effects 

 of the sudden application of cold to the body. He 

 might then be stripped and set off at a canter or a 

 hand-gallop for about a mile ; then walked for a few 

 minutes, and the cantering repeated, and continued in 

 this way alternately for about an hour, taking care 

 that the animal should not sweat beyond a moderate 

 and general moisture of the skin. This portion of ex- 

 ercise should be given him twice a-day for the first 

 fortnight or three weeks after he has gone through his 

 physic ; and it might afterwards be increased by giving 

 him some strong gallops, in order to practise him in 

 the free use and command of his limbs to the utmost 

 extent of action. By thus sweating, with his body and 

 head and neck uncovered, he will have the benefit 

 of the contact of the fresh air, the vapour arising from 

 the skin will fly off as fast as it is produced, and 

 the vessels will be strengthened and invigorated by 

 the freshness of the passing breeze. If any further 

 reasoning were necessarv to show the bad effects 

 of immoderate sweating in the body-clothes, the fol- 

 lowing analogy might very fairly supply it. It is a 

 fact which most horsemen and drivers of horses must 

 know, that a horse when going with the wind, sweats 

 more than when he is going against it ; and this simply 

 from the circumstance of his beins:, in the first case, 



