€2 : TURKISH BATH. 



nervous, he will get too fat oa this treatment, and fat even if so 

 placed as not to obstruct the play of the lungs and the expansion 

 of blood vessels, would be only an additional weight to carry 

 and every pound of weight is an important consideration in a 

 race. 



Fat is kept down without either starving or over working, 

 by calling on the pores of the skin to carry it away. This is done 

 by working the horse briskly, in thick clothing, about once a 

 week, or as often as is found necessary. 



119. — One hour after he has had his first feed in the morning, 

 having had as much water as he can drink by him all night, take 

 off his usual clothing and put on a doubly thick rug and hood, 

 kept for the purpose. Walk him briskly for an hour to open all 

 the pores of the skin, then begin a slow trot, gradually increasing 

 the pace for twenty minutes ; then canter slowly for about two 

 miles ; then take him at once to the stable and heap half a dozen 

 blankets or rugs on him, and give him water to drink in small 

 <|uantities. 



In quarter of an hour take off all the clotliiug and send it 

 out of the stal)le to dry and sweeten, then let a couple of men 

 scrape and rub the horse quite dry. Put on some blankets or rugs 

 that can be changed in an hour's time for his usual clothing. 

 Every training horse should have a duplicate set of clothing, 

 and every opportunity be taken to put out one set in the open air 

 in fine weather, or to air by the fire in damp weather. We have 

 shown (56) how important it is that the skin should get every 

 assistance to carry off carbonic acid, and the worn out and pulled 

 down materials of the vigorous, because rapidly changed, body. 



The clothes should never be saturated with the impurities 

 and moisture that the skin is constantly throwing off, but should 

 be kept in a state to absorb them readily, and be deprived of all 

 injurious odour by frequent exposure to warm, dry, sweet air. 

 Nothing so good as free exposure to sun and wind, and next to 

 that is an open fire. 



1 20. — A far better way t han the above to dry a horse after a sweat 

 Avhen the weather will permit, is to bring him straight from his 

 canter to some sunny spot outside the stables, and taking off the 



