170 WIND. 



of respiration; and the sooner a horse can blow 

 his nose on being pulled up from a brushing gal- 

 lop, or from having finished his sweat at a 

 good telling pace, the clearer and better he may 

 be considered to be in his wind. Some horses, 

 while in training, and that are getting forward 

 in their condition, as they are going along in 

 their exercise get into a habit of snorting, as 

 they are expelling the air from their lungs; but 

 this is not the snorting we above allude to, nor is 

 it to be considered as any criterion for the read- 

 er to judge of the state of his horse's wind, 



I shall mention another practice, for the pur- 

 pose of expressing my disapprobation of it, which 

 though perhaps of little or no importance, yet, as 

 it was of no utility, ought long since to have 

 been done away with. Exercise boys, in my 

 time, were very apt, on the horses being pulled 

 up from their gallops, itnd being, as is the 

 custom, let stand for a short time to recover 

 their wind before they walked away, to begin 

 making a noise with their lips similar to that 

 the horses made with their nostrils when they 

 blowed their noses. As horses mostly follow the 

 examples, tricks, or habits, of each other, the 

 noise thus made by the boys probably often 



