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you know, we wish to avoid. (For further in- 

 structions on the riding of this sort of horse, see 

 Vol. I. Chap. 18). 



The horse having been pulled up, and let 

 stand just for a moment to recover his wind, is 

 to be walked back into the rubbing-house. The 

 boy, having turned his horse round in the stall, 

 dismounts, slacks his horse's girth, and then 

 takes charge of his head. As there is no neces- 

 sity for reducing the muscular surface of a horse 

 of this description, (he having but a short length 

 to run), he may, if the morning is warm, have 

 been sent [over the ground very lightly clothed, 

 or perhaps stripped: be this as it may, it will be 

 necessary, on his coming into the stall of the 

 rubbing-house, to throw an additional portion of 

 clothes on him, to produce a sufficient degree of 

 perspiration to relieve his constitution, or rather 

 to prevent any bad effects from arising — fever or 

 inflammation. This is a circumstance which 

 grooms should particularly attend to with all 

 horses when sweating, and more particularly in 

 their first sweats; for, although I have directed, 

 in the preceding chapter, that they are to go 

 slow in their first sweats, it is still necessary that 

 they should be made to sweat profusely when 



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