WIND. 16.5 



To improve their wind, galloping or sweating- 

 exercise is to be had recourse to, whichever of 

 these two may best suit the constitutions of dif- 

 ferent horses. But it is to be observed, that it is 

 the first-mentioned exercise with which we must 

 first commence, and which is to take place as 

 soon as the horses have been suflSciently long 

 at walking exercise to recover from the effects 

 of their physic, which may be in about a week, 

 depending upon how their physic may have oper- 

 ated on them. Now, when the horses first 

 commence their gallops, it is with a view, in 

 some degree, of improving their wind, so as to 

 enable them to go through their first sweats. 

 A groom having sent his horses for a few days 

 up their gallops, is to begin to think about sweat- 

 ing some of them; but, previous to his allowing 

 them to undergo this exertion, he is to find out 

 whether the horses he may intend to sweat are 

 all sufficiently clear in their wind to admit of 

 their going through it without becoming un- 

 usually distressed. To ascertain this fact, he 

 must in due time speak to the boy who leads 

 the gallop for the class of horses that are to be 

 sweated, by saying to him, either in the stable or 

 as the horses are going to the ground — " Bill, 

 keep fast your horse's head this morning, and 



