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and tlie different lengths horses have to go in 

 their sweats, I shall now proceed to state how 

 the whole of the practical detail is to be carried 

 into effect. 



Horses, in commencing their training, sweat 

 very readily; they should, therefore, go at a slow 

 pace, and as they proceed on gradually in their 

 different sweats, their bodies will be diminishing 

 in weight; and while their legs will be increasino- 

 in strength, their muscular powers and wind will 

 also at the same time be progressively improving. 

 As woollen cloths are bad conductors of heat, 

 they are consequently the most proper and con-, 

 venient for the purpose of horses sweatino- in; 

 and the quantity or number of them are to be 

 increased by the directions of the training groom, 

 according to the different effects he intends they 

 are to produce. (For a description of different 

 sorts of cloths, and their various uses, see Vol. I. 

 Chap. 9.) The groom therefore orders the head 

 lad, on the sweating morning, to lay out the pro- 

 per quantity of sweaters behind each of the 

 horses that are to sweat. Most horses that have 

 been accustomed to be trained, and that have 

 been habituated to sweat often, are more or less 



