282 SWEATING CRAVING HORSES. 



thing which should not be allowed to take place, 

 until the saddle and clothes are all taken off at 

 one time, for the horse's body to be instantly 

 scraped. The old-fashioned long, narrow body- 

 sweater being an inconvenient one to put on, has 

 long since been dispensed with; and as the long 

 narrow-breast one is quite as inconvenient to 

 take off, I see no reason why this cloth might 

 not give place to one similar to that I have been 

 describing. 



Having now described the manner of clothing 

 horses in their sweats, we shall proceed to the 

 sweating of them. It is to be understood, that 

 the six horses we have taken for an example have 

 all been in previous training, some for two, and 

 others for three years; and that they have also 

 been doing some little portion of work in their 

 gallops, merely to clear their wind in a slight 

 degree. We have noticed in the Chapter on 

 Galloping Exercise, that, whenever the training 

 groom wishes to do any thing particular with re- 

 gard to the working of his horses, he puts up a 

 boy to lead them in their work, who is a good 

 judge of the pace of any horse he is riding; this 

 boy, by the time he has become proficient in this 

 part of his duty, will also have become acquainted 



