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over him, and which pull he takes whenever he sees 

 a necessity for it ; and in this way he prevents the 

 horse from breaking way, and thereby over-marking 

 himself, which might occasion a fresh accident. But 

 this sort of thing is not very likely to happen, if the 

 boy that rides the horse be such a one as I have de- 

 scribed. He well knows how to rate the horse at a fair 

 and even pace throughout the whole of his sweat ; and 

 whether such a horse will have to sweat by himself, 

 or should have another horse to come home with him, 

 will depend on the sort of horse he is. But the man- 

 ner of sweating different horses will be fully explained 

 in the second part of this work, when we are on the 

 subject of training race-horses. 



As soon as the horse in question has been brought 

 home to the stables after sweating, and as soon as he 

 is dressed, and his legs are well fomented, the leg 

 which we have described as being amiss, should have 

 the cold lotion, * with the bandage applied to it. This 

 application should be continued to the leg while the 

 horse is in the stable, until the groom feels confident 

 that the leg has completely recovered its former tone, 

 which he may observe from its continuing perfectly 

 cool and in shape. 



But, when the horse is at exercise, the boot on the 

 leg, if well padded, is, I think, preferable to the ban- 



* Such as was commonly used by trainers on such occasions ; 

 as the crude sal ammoniac, and sugar of lead; of the former, four 

 ounces, and of the latter, one ounce, dissolved in three pints of 

 vinegar and one pint of water. 



