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clothes sponge him freely with water, cither warm or cold, over 

 every part of his skin, and ipiit-kly scrape with hoop iron, and 

 ml) dry with towels. This will refresh the horse and make him 

 dry and comfortable in a innch shorter time than he could be 

 dried without the water. It i-; a most refreshing process for any 

 heated horse to go through at any time, one that they thoroughly 

 enjoy, and one that will pi'epare them for a second exertion more 

 quickly than anything else w'e know of. 



121. — This sweating process has gone out of fashion a great 

 deal lately, but nothing has really taken its place. We have no 

 doubt that it will come back in an improved form. We believe 

 there used to be too much galloping in the heavy clothes, and too 

 little attention to getting the horse quickly and thoroughly dry. 

 There is still a stupid belief in pliysic, which is more difficult to 

 understand than the large fortune made by Holloway's pills. 



122. — Less than two years ago we had an opportunity of 

 closely watching the training of two ordinary horses by an 

 amateur. One was a chestnut gelding that had been bouglit for 

 £30, and commonly driven by a lady. The other was a black 

 mare bought for £10. There was little if anv difference in their 

 ages. These horses were fed well on corn and cut straw, but had 

 no hay, and were daily allowed to nibble a little grass, more or 

 less as their bowels appeared to demand it. They never tasted 

 physic. They were sweated about once a week, and were always 

 w'ashed dry and made comfortal)le as soon as possible. In fine 

 weather they were allowed to crawl about, sauntering and 

 nibbling, with a boy on the back of one of them, so as to 

 keep them a great deal in the open air. 



123. — After about three months of this training the horse 

 could beat the mare without an effort, giving her five stone. 

 He ran at the public races, for which he was trained, and carried all 

 before him against a number of good professionally trained 

 horses. On the first day he won a two mile hurdle race, over 

 eight flights of hurdles, carrying nine stones three pounds ; 

 time, four minutes and six seconds. On the second day he was 

 made to carry twelve stones seven pounds, but still he won easily, 

 running amile and a half in three minutes and four seconds 



