SWEATING HOUSES. 30 1 



very irritable and flighty in their tempers, and 

 ^vill not bear mucli exercise of any sort, (as 

 we have ah'eady noticed), but as, on the other 

 hand, they are mostly in good wind, nor, gene- 

 rally speaking, are they disposed to put up flesh 

 to any very great extent, there is therefore the 

 less to come ofl* them, be their ages what they 

 may. There are two motives for sending these 

 light horses over the sweating ground; the prin- 

 cipal one is, to get something like a length into 

 them, so as to bring them a little stouter for the 

 distance they have to come in their races; the 

 other is, that clothing them up when they come 

 into the stable or rubbing-house causes them to 

 sweat sufficiently to relieve their constitutions, 

 and the scraping tolerably well cleanses their 

 skins, and makes them afterwards appear fine and 

 glossy in their coats. 



Some of these horses may have to go over the 

 sweating ground once in a fortnight, others once 

 in three weeks, others not during the whole time 

 they are in training. The commencing their sweats 

 will depend much on the month in which their 

 engagements are to take place: if in the begin- 

 ning of April, they will have to sweat early in 

 the spring, and after breakfast, the mornings then 



