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for others of his class; we will now, therefore, 

 put him to lead the last two sweats lie has to 

 do as a yearling ; and this is merely that the 

 groom may know to a certainty how he can 

 finish or come home in them. 



The groom now cautiously gives his orders to 

 the boy that rides the colt; he says — ^'You must 

 mind. Bill, what you are about; come you off 

 with them presently" (meaning the two or three 

 colts of the first class that may be going to sweat 

 together) '' at a steady even pace, until you come 

 to such a part of the ground," naming some 

 known object as a guide to the boy, and which 

 object should be about three quarters of a mile 

 from where the colts pull up on finishing their 

 sweats. The groom, in going on with his direc- 

 tions, says, "■ when you get there, take a quiet 

 pull to set your colt agoing, and come with him 

 at a quiet sweating pace ; but as you know he is 

 rather an idle one, if you find it necessary to get 

 at him, by now and then taking a pull and hust- 

 ling him along, do so; for you must mind to 

 come home the whole of the way from where 

 I tell you at a good, fair, sweating pace." The 

 groom, knowing his hack (which he is upon at 

 the time) to be a pretty quick one for a short 



