SWEATING YEARLINGS. 2JU 



of his muscular system, and on the time the train- 

 ing groom may observe the colt again putting up 

 flesh, according to which the interval should be 

 regulated from one sweating day to the other. 

 A groom cannot be too careful in observing how 

 a colt puts up flesh ; nor, on the other hand, can 

 he be too careful how he takes it off him. I 

 mean by this, that I prefer a young one, and 

 more particularly the sort of yearling to which I 

 am now alluding, to appear, on his coming to 

 post, (particularly if a big one), as to his muscular 

 surface, rather full or high, provided he is clear 

 in his wind, and that he has got a little longer 

 length into him than that he is going to 

 run. The groom is to ascertain these two last- 

 mentioned circumstances, by observing suffi- 

 ciently early how his colt is going on with his 

 work; and what more principally will guide 

 him is, how this same colt comes home in the 

 finishing his last two or three sweats. But he 

 must take care that the colt has on him, in 

 doing his two last sweats, a smart, light, good 

 riding boy, who knows how to put his orders 

 into practice. 



It is to be understood that this colt in his 

 turn has kindly enough led the gallop or sweat 



