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serge clothes are very useful. There are also suits 

 of white linen or calico clothes ; these are mostly used 

 in the hot months of July and August, for the horses 

 to go to exercise in the evening. They are very pro- 

 per for light delicate flighty horses, which are easily 

 alarmed and are often breaking out in sweats, and, in 

 some measure, they prevent the flies from annoying 

 tlie horses ; they are convenient on running days for 

 some horses to walk to the course in. There should 

 be with each suit of clothes a linen and a flannel 

 rubber. 



It sometimes happens, that a horse bites and tears 

 his clothes in the stables ; any horse doing this sort of 

 thing, should have a quarter-piece made of horse hair, 

 to stand in the stable with. It should be lined inside 

 so as to prevent the hair from irritating his skin. It 

 should be made to answer the purpose of a breast 

 cloth, by its being allowed to come well forward ; 

 there should be a buckle and strap in front, to keep it 

 in its proper situation round the chest. When this does 

 not answer the purpose, a cradle, properly made, 

 is sometimes used, or what may answer the purpose as 

 well, a strong stick secured at one end of the horse's 

 collar, at the other end to the roller. These are all 

 the clothes which are necessary to be used in the 

 training of race-horses ; and how they are to be made 

 use of, for different horses, either in or out of the 

 stables, I shall fully explain when on the subject of 

 training race-horses. 



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