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with him, continues at the pace for a good length : but 

 if the head lad sees him beginning to hang, and slacken 

 from what he considers a sweating pace, he desires the 

 boy to take a pull, and hustle his horse along. If he 

 still observes the horse does not come, when challenged 

 in this way, being aware that he is a very craving, idle 

 horse, and that unless he is persevered with rather se- 

 verely, the length cannot be got into him at the pace 

 necessary to get a good sweat out of him, the head lad. 

 says to the boy, — "■ Get up your ash plant, and flourish 

 it near your horse's head or over your own." And if 

 the horse does not come at a better pace when thus 

 excited to it, the boy is to be told to drop his ash plant 

 smartly down his horse's shoulders o r under his belly, 

 either with his left or right hand, for he should be 

 taught to use both equally well. Just at this time, the 

 head lad should make another run, get a little for- 

 warder, let the two horses be head and neck, thus pro- 

 ceeding at a fair telling pace until they are approaching 

 pretty near home, when the head lad should make 

 another run with his horse, getting so far forward as to 

 bring both horses nearly head and head. The ad- 

 vantage given to the craving horse should be about half a 

 head. The boy riding this horse should now vigorously 

 persevere with him, and of whatever length the last 

 rally home may be, he should be pretty near the top 

 of his speed immediately previous to his being pulled 

 up at the end of the sweating ground. 



A boy thus instructed, and being often put to ride 

 horses of the above description in their sweats, soon gets 



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