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precautionary measures to be observed in the 

 treatment of them afterwards. 



After giving horses their first sweat, and when 

 the stables are sufficiently adjacent to the train- 

 ing ground, they should be immediately taken 

 into them, to be scraped and dressed. But as it 

 more frequently happens that the stables are at 

 an inconvenient distance from the sweating 

 ground, which is the case even at Newmarket, 

 with the exception of a stable or two at the west 

 end of the town, they must be taken into the 

 rubbing-house on the downs, to be got done, 

 after they have gone through their sweats. On 

 such occasions some little previous arrangements 

 must be made, as taking there a change of dry 

 clothes, with scrapers, straw, and rubbers. The 

 number and quantity of the articles to be taken 

 to the rubbing-house will depend on circum- 

 stances, as the number of horses that are going 

 to sweat, and the season of the year ; if early in 

 the spring, and the weather cold, more dry 

 clothes would be wanted than in summer. 



The usual way of packing up the dry clothes 

 is, by doubling up the spare clothes a convenient 

 length, so as to admit of their being rolled snugly 



