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mented in warm water up to just above their 

 knees and hocks. This is a very necessary ap- 

 plication to the legs of horses that may have 

 been going very long lengths in either their 

 sweats, trials, or races, and more particularly so, 

 should the latter be heats severely contested for; 

 warm water thus applied to those parts relaxes 

 the vessels, and gives a free passage to the circu- 

 lation of the blood, thereby allowing or aiding 

 those parts to perform their proper functions. 

 Their legs after being sponged dry should be 

 bandaged up, from the coronets to the bending 

 of the joints of their knees and hocks. Imme- 

 diately previous to the horses being stripped of 

 their saddles and body clothes, I would advise 

 their water, rather warm, to be given to them. I 

 am fully aware that this is rather against the old 

 practice, but I will state why I recommend it, 

 bye-and-bye. 



The horses' bodies and hind quarters are now to 

 be perfectly dressed; that they may not be kept 

 too long stripped, there should be two boys em- 

 ployed about each horse, that is, if the tempers 

 of the horses will allow of it ; if not, the boy who 

 looks after a bad-tempered horse had better 

 quietly dress his own horse himself The horses' 



