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guided by the usual circumstances, as to the 

 length of time it may be necessary for the horses 

 to keep on at the gentle sweating pace men- 

 tioned; and which may be ascertained by his 

 observing when the sweat begins to issue forth 

 from the fore- quarters, passing on to the top of 

 the fore-arm a little below the clothing; and the 

 same observations are to be made on the hind- 

 quarters, as at the top and inside of the thighs. 

 On these appearances being present, the horses 

 should be pulled up, and ridden into the stable, 

 and here treated the same as if they had been 

 sweated on the downs. And as regards their 

 going out to take their sweating gallop, if they 

 are well clothed, that is, comfortably so, there 

 is not that danger of their catching cold after 

 sweating as grooms were formerly so very appre- 

 hensive of. They may then go into the paddock 

 again and take a short gallop, and after their 

 having been pulled up from it, let them walk 

 round once or twice, so that they may not 

 come into the stable too much heated, which 

 may occasion some of them, as we have already 

 noticed, to break out into a second sweat ; they 

 are now to be finished in all respects as usual, 

 and to be allowed to remain in the stable for 

 the day. 



