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length, says to the boy as he is about to leave 

 him, " I shall be waiting for you within about half 

 a distance from where I told you to pull up, and 

 for about two or three lengths before you come to 

 me, take a pull at your colt, and twist him along. 

 I shall go head and girth home with you, for I 

 want to see how your colt will finish his sweat in 

 this length of rally ; but mind, you are not to be 

 too severe upon him, or you will overset him in 

 his stride." The groom, in speaking to the boys 

 on the colts that may have to follow in this same 

 sweat, says — " Keep a steady pull on your colts, 

 and endeavour, without severity, to keep your 

 places, that is, mind you do not persevere too 

 much with them." 



The above colts having gone well through 

 their sweats, and the colt that leads having finish- 

 ed very satisfactorily, the groom now thinks, or 

 perhaps he talks the thing over to himself, and 

 says, speaking of the colt that led, " Well, he 

 has come in his sweat at a good, fair, sweating- 

 pace, for a little longer length than he will have 

 to run, either in his trial or race, and I know by 

 my hack that he finished in a rally of nearly half 

 a distance at something like a racing pace ; he 

 pulled up sound, and blowed his nose in good 



