268 SWEATING CRAVING HORSES. 



How horses may have to sweat while in train- 

 ing, and the different methods to be adopted in 

 getting them carefully and properly through their 

 sweats, will, as I have elsewhere frequently 

 mentioned, depend (as must all other things 

 which are done unto them) on a variety of cir- 

 cumstances ; as, for example, the ages of the 

 horses, the strength of their constitutions, their 

 manner of feeding, the state of their condition, 

 the season of the year, the state the ground may 

 be in at the time, as that of its being very wet, 

 having too much foot-hold, or otherwise, as being 

 very dry and hard. I'he whole, or rather most 

 of the above causes, will in the end have refer- 

 ence to the three following: — first, whether the 

 horses are to sweat, principally, to get the flesh 

 off them, and which takes place in the early 

 stages of their training; secondly, the length of 

 ground sufficient to get a good sweat out of them, 

 which takes place when they are getting pretty 

 forward in their training; thirdly, to go fast 

 enough to bring them stout as to pace, and which 

 must be near the time of their perfecting their 

 condition. The very great extent to which it is 

 frequently necessary to sw^eat some race horses, 

 renders this sort of exercise the most severe of 

 any they have to undergo. 



