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by the usual or necessary repetition of gallops. 

 A colt of this sort generally does better with 

 rather longer walking exercise, (to increase his 

 appetite), but with shorter and more gentle gal- 

 lops before and after water. A groom, in train- 

 ing him, will in all probability find, that he 

 will do better by being sweated rather oft- 

 ener than those colts that will bear longer and 

 more frequent gallops; but he must observe, that 

 this colt, as also the others of this class, are 

 lightly clothed in their sweats, more particularly 

 if the morning should be warm. 



On the first time of sweating these colts, 

 the groom's orders to the boy that leads the 

 sweat should be, " Come you off with them, 

 Tom, at a gentle and even striding pace." As 

 there will be no occasion for them to do more in 

 the concluding' of their sweats on each sweating 

 day than very gradually to increase the pace a 

 little, until they have to do their last sweat, at 

 the latter part of which they should come home 

 at a downright good sweating pace for a little 

 longer length than they have to be tried, it will 

 not be necessary for the groom to come home 

 on his hack, in a short rally with them, as I 

 have directed he should do with the first class 

 colts; but it may be as well for him to be 



