SWEATING CRAVING HORSES. !27.*J 



arrangements as he did in the winter season before 

 the horses began their training, with the addition 

 of the preparatory matter of finishing the setting 

 of those that may be going to sweat. Strong 

 constitutioned horses, that may have to come to 

 post at the end of March or beginning of April, 

 will have to begin their sweats (if the weather is 

 open) early in February. At this time, and, 

 perhaps, even to the end of March, the mornings 

 are seldom either fine or warm enough for the 

 horses to sweat, until after the boys have got 

 their breakfasts. On the approach of summer, 

 the horses sweat earlier; and, should it be ex- 

 cessively hot in the months of July and Au- 

 gust, it will be necessary, to prevent the horses 

 becoming jaded or languid by the heat, to sweat 

 them in the cool of the morning, perhaps before 

 the dew is off the grass. 



Many of the horses that put up flesh quickly, 

 will, as I have observed, have to sweat as often 

 as three times a fortnight. Should the morning, 

 on the days they have to sweat, be cool, it will 

 be advisable to defer their sweating until the 

 day is farther advanced, as nine or ten o'clock; 

 it will be better to do this in the early stages 

 of their condition, than afterwards, to produce 



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