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have to exercise in, and the sort of surface they 

 have to go over, and then regulate the pace 

 accordingly. 



Whenever the day comes round for any of the 

 horses to do their sweats here, they are to be set 

 and got ready as usual on such occasions. On 

 their coming into the paddock, they are to walk 

 for a short time, the groom having given orders 

 to the boys to keep fast their horses' heads, so 

 that they may be collected in their stride; the 

 head lad on a hack should be in front of them, 

 to rate them, not only at a very even pace, but 

 at a very, very slow one : and the length of time 

 it will take to sweat them here will not be for a 

 longer period, or at least very triflingly so, than if 

 they were sweating very slowly on the downs ; as 

 it is well known by those who have made their ob- 

 servations on such matters, that horses will sweat 

 more readily, either in clothes or out of them, 

 in winter, in cold frosty weather, than they would 

 do by the same exertion when the weather is 

 more open, and feeling in some trifling degree 

 warmer. This circumstance is said to be occa- 

 sioned from the air in frosty weather being a 

 greater non-conductor of heat. The groom is to 

 observe how his horses are going on, and be 



