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at the top of tlie gallop in time to see them 

 pull up, and attentively observe what improve- 

 ment they may have made. By this time 

 their wind to a certain extent will no doubt 

 have improved, which may be seen by their blow- 

 ing their noses in a shorter time than when they 

 were first examined with the other horses. If 

 the groom has any doubt on his mind, as to the 

 time horses may take in blowing their noses, for 

 they will not all do this equally alike as to time, 

 he may in a quiet way count them out; that is, 

 immediately on the horses pulling up, the groom 

 may begin to reckon to himself, dividing the time 

 of each numbering, as near as he can, to the six- 

 tieth part of a minute. If the horses blow their 

 noses within the above-mentioned time, or in the 

 counting of seventy, or at furthest eighty, they 

 may sweat. 



It is by the exertion which horses undergo in 

 strong exercise, as in their gallops and sweats, 

 that their wind is improved ; but it is more par- 

 ticularly so by the latter, as by this their lungs 

 are brought into strong action, not only from the 

 pace they go in their sweats, but from the ad- 

 ditional quantity of clothing which they have to 

 stand under in the rubbing-house after they are 



