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some such rough expression as " Come, or go along, 

 you brute," to intmiidate and urge him on in finishing 

 his sweat. 



This is the manner in which a craving, idle, sulky 

 horse is pulled or hustled, in order to get him at his 

 best pace in concluding either his gallop, sweat, or race. 

 In the language of the stable, this is called " getting at 

 a horse, or setting-to with him for the rally he can live 

 in ;" and although the boy who has to ride a horse of 

 this description must, in his exertions, use his hands, 

 arms, legs, feet, and occasionally turn his head, with 

 all his limbs in action at one and the same moment, 

 yet he should be well down in his saddle, nor should 

 his body move more than can possibly be avoided. 



I am aware, from experience, that riding such 

 craving horses in their sweats is much more easily 

 talked about than done. Indeed, it is very laborious 

 to keep some of them going, and to rate them properly 

 for the lengths they have to come on those occasions. 

 Such horses require to have on them boys that are not 

 only in high practice in riding, but strong and deter- 

 mined on horseback. It is by no means a difficult task 

 to learn how to make the exertions I have here men- 

 tioned, and to v/hich all good riding boys are obliged 

 to have recourse in urging such idle horses on. The 

 youngest boy in the stable, from the directions of the 

 head lad or training groom, together with the observa- 

 tions he makes on what he sees good riding boys do, 

 soon becomes acquainted with this pull and hustle, so 

 much so that many of the boys are too apt, unless they 



