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bodies and hind quarters having been well dress- 

 ed, they are to be comfortably re- clothed in their 

 standing- clothes; a hood having been thrown 

 over their quarters, and their manes and tails 

 combed out, their bandages are to be removed, 

 and their legs well rubbed. The stables set fair, 

 the horses are to be fed, hayed, and done up as 

 the other horses, which will most likely be at 

 about one o'clock ; it may be either a little 

 earlier or later, depending on what time in 

 the morning the horses in question began their 

 sweats. Their quarters being stripped and 

 their heads let down, the whole of the stables 

 are now shut up until four, or perhaps five 

 o'clock; for the horses at this season of the year 

 will only have to go out once during the day. 



At whichever hour the stables are again open- 

 ed, they are to be set fair, and the horses having 

 been watered, their dressing muzzles are to be 

 put on, and their heads chained up; they are then 

 to be stripped, brushed over, and re-clothed, 

 their legs rubbed, their beds set fair, the whole 

 of them fed and hayed, and the stables again 

 shut up until eight o'clock ; at which hour they 

 are again opened, the horses' heads being secured 

 as usual, and the beds set fair. 



