306 SWEATING HORSES. 



standing in tlieir stalls under their additional 

 clothing; and for this reason, that when horses in 

 training begin their sweats, they are not only fat 

 on the surface of their bodies, but they are also 

 very fat in their insides ; and consequently in this 

 state they are more liable to become constitu- 

 tionally diseased from exertion, unless, as I have 

 observed, they are allowed to sweat in the stables 

 to the extent I have already noticed. 



If the precautions in sweating horses in the 

 stalls of the stables or rubbing-houses are adopt- 

 ed as I have advised, there will be no occasion for 

 grooms to bleed their horses after their first 

 sweats, as was formerly too much the custom, for 

 fear that they should take cold, and be heard 

 coughing on the following day. After the horse 

 we have sweated has been scraped and dressed, 

 he is to be comfortably re-clothed, agreeably to 

 the state of the weather, and ridden out on to the 

 downs, where he should take a short quiet gallop ; 

 and on being pulled up he is to be walked about 

 for an hour, if it is a fine pleasant morning, to 

 give him an appetite for his food. Should he 

 have been a little alarmed by the exertion he has 

 undergone, the boy who rides him may, by speak- 

 ing kindly to him, and making much of him. 



