280 SWEATING CRAVING HORSES. 



he can, previously to bringing the sides of the 

 long sweating cloth up each side of the horse's 

 shoulders to the top of his withers, where the 

 ends of this cloth are to be crossed over, and 

 continued as far back as they will go towards the 

 horse's loins. The saddle, and, if reruisite, 

 a martingale, being put on, it may now be 

 girthed up. 



Previously to the horse going out of the stable 

 the groom must see that the bottom part of the 

 breast sweater is not too tight, this he is to as- 

 certain by putting his hand up between it and 

 the horse's chest; if it should be too tight, he 

 has only to draw it sufficiently out at the bot- 

 tom part, so as to give room for the free work- 

 ing of the points of the horse's shoulders. Un- 

 less this little precaution is taken, the horse's 

 shoulders will become galled, from the friction 

 occasioned by too much pressure of the breast 

 sweater during the time the horse is galloping- 

 over the sweating ground, and more particularly 

 so, should he be a delicate thin-skinned horse. 



The old-fashioned long breast sweater might, 

 I think, be advantageously done away with, and 

 a less inconvenient one substituted; for example. 



