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their sweats; but some of them will shut up in them, 

 that is, they will sulk and slacken their pace; nor 

 can they at all times be got to struggle in a rally, 

 unless they choose to come of themselves, however 

 severely a rider may get at them. Whenever such 

 horses are going to sweat, they require to be rode by 

 boys that are in high practice in riding sweats, and 

 that are very strong and determined on horseback. 



To describe how this sort of horse is to be pulled 

 and hustled, so as to get him along, let us suppose half 

 a dozen horses sweating together, an idle, craving 

 horse, with a good riding boy on him, being in front 

 to lead them. The usual orders being given to the boy 

 how he is to proceed with the pace as soon as the horses 

 are got well away, the boy leading them with the 

 craving horse soon finds he has to get at his horse's 

 head by giving him a pull or two to get his head well 

 up and in place, and to press him with his legs to keep 

 him going. Thus the boy goes on until he comes to 

 that part of the ground at which he is ordered to rate 

 his horse a little faster, or to come home with him at 

 the usual pace. 



To assist in urging the craving horse on, it is likely 

 that one or two of the boys have received orders to 

 come with the horses they are riding in the sweat up 

 to the craving horse's girths, and occasionally to chal- 

 lenge him ; or the gFOom may have ordered a horse 

 stripped to come with the craving one from this part 

 of the ground home. Whichever of these orders is 

 given is not very material. It is from this part of the 



