CHAPTER XVIL 



SWEATING THE FIRST CLASS OF YEARLINGS. 



We now coine to speak of the sweating of those 

 young colts of the first class, which are now 

 something more than two years old. The length 

 of their sweats should be from two miles to two 

 miles and a quarter. These colts being hearty 

 feeders, put up flesh very fast; and although I 

 do not by any means hold with that of drawing- 

 young ones fine, yet there are now and then 

 some among them so very thick and close made 

 as to require, even at this early age, their being 

 brought, by a repetition of gentle sweats, into 

 something like the shape and form of a race 

 horse. How often a yearling will have to sweat 

 must depend on what effect the first sweat may 

 have produced on him, in reducing the surface 



