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tion, are more difficult to be got to sweat tlian at 

 any other time. Whenever this is known to be 

 the case, it becomes requisite, not only to make 

 some little addition to the clothing of such horses, 

 but also to increase the length of the sweat- 

 ing ground for half a mile, or perhaps more ; and 

 if they are, which is mostly the case, strong-con- 

 stitutioned horses, and are drawing near the time 

 of finishing their training, the groom should or- 

 der the boy who rides the horse that leads the 

 sweat to increase the pace somewhat earlier in 

 concluding the length of the ground, than is 

 usual with other horses on more common occa- 

 sions. It is of course to be understood, that 

 whatever horses are to sweat, they have been pre- 

 viously prepared, that is to say, they have been set 

 according to what they are. The muzzles have 

 been put on some of them over-night, perhaps 

 on some others very early in the morning. 



We will now proceed to state the way in which 

 horses are to be got ready that are going to 

 sweat: and first as to the manner of putting on 

 their sweating clothes. These we have already 

 observed are ordered by the training groom to be 

 laid out in sufficient portions behind each horse. 

 The morning the horses are to sweat, as the hour 



