CHAPTER XXII. 



SWEATING CONTINUED. 



In the last chapter I endeavoured to enumerate 

 the practical details in giving liorses their first 

 sweat in the early part of the season, and which 

 are also to be observed in the sweating of almost 

 all horses while in training; during which time, 

 unless they should be unwell, they must not miss 

 a single sweat ; but the number of sweating days, 

 and the intervals between each, must be regu- 

 lated, as we have already stated, by the constitu- 

 tion of the horse. But as horses are getting into 

 condition, (and more particularly so as they ap- 

 proach the time of their running), some little 

 alterations must progressively take place, as to 

 the length and pace they will have to go in 

 their sweats; and there will also be some little 



