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a slow even striding pace; if you rate them as I 

 wish you, there will be no danger, lusty as they 

 are, of any one horse going too fast for another." 

 The groom, in speaking to the boys on the other 

 horses, says — " Mind you keep fast hold of your 

 horses' heads, and keep in your places as when 

 you started, until you pull up." 



The groom, on his hack, is to observe how his 

 horses are going on in their sweats; he should 

 also take care to be early enough at that part of 

 the ground where the horses are to be pulled up. 

 Having been pulled up, they may be let stand for 

 a moment to recover their wind a little; they 

 should then be moved quickly on into the rubbing- 

 house or stable. The boys having ridden the 

 horses into the stalls here, and turned them about, 

 dismount, and immediately slack their horses' 

 girths, and take off their horses' boots. Each boy 

 having moved as much of the bedding round the 

 front of his horse as will prevent him from 

 slipping about at the time of his being scraped, 

 takes charge of his horse's head, in the same 

 manner as he did at the time when the horses 

 were being clothed up for their sweats; while 

 tlie other boys, who were left behind to assist in 

 getting the horses done, immediately put on to 



