SWEATING HORSES. 303 



liorse is a good rider and kind in his temper, 

 and has always been on good terms with his 

 horse, he may be the most proper one to ride 

 liim in his sweat. But if the groom has any 

 doubt in his mind as to the capability of the 

 above boy to ride the horse as he could wish, he 

 had better put up one of the six named in the 

 chapter on the Instruction of Boys in Riding. 



The description of horses we are now alluding 

 to require little or no preparation in the way of 

 setting; walking them out on the downs for a 

 short time, merely to allow them to stretch their 

 legs and empty themselves, (which latter they 

 very readily do), is almost all that is necessary. 

 But the groom must observe that the length any 

 horse has to sweat is to be regulated according 

 to his age, (which has already been noticed in 

 the preceding chapter on Horses doing their first 

 Sweat, p. 270.) 



We will now mention the necessary orders to 

 be given, as to how we wish this sort of horse to 

 be managed by the boy who is to ride him over 

 the sweating ground, and which ground may, 

 perhaps, be a four-mile course. The groom may, 

 either in the stables, or as he is going with the 



