302 SWEATING HORSES. 



being generally cold; but if their engagements 

 are later, they will not be required to sweat before 

 the season is more advanced, and the mornings 

 warmer, in which case they would take their 

 sweats before breakfast. 



The precautionary measures to be adopted, as 

 to how they are to sweat, must of course be de- 

 termined by the good sense of the training 

 groom; having had the horses in question for 

 some time under his care, he is supposed to know 

 their tempers, and has previously arranged pro- 

 per boys to ride them. He will probably say to 

 himself, and which is most likely to be true, that 

 such a horse of the above description will per- 

 haps go more peaceably over the sweating 

 ground alone, than in company with others; and 

 should this be the case, the horse is of course to 

 be allowed to do so. If the morning is cold, the 

 horse may be moderately clothed; but if it is 

 warm, he may go in a single light quarter-piece 

 breast cloth and hood; or, should it be in the 

 middle of summer, and the morning hot, he may 

 go stripped. These little arrangements must 

 very much depend on the horse's temper, as 

 must also the orders given to the boy how he is 

 to ride him. If the boy who looks after the 



