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them. They are then to be allowed to stand blow- 

 ing (with a boy at each horse's head) until they 

 are in a fit state to be scraped, the mode of doing 

 which I have described in the preceding chapter. 

 Horses are said to scrape well when the per- 

 spiration is observed to pass on before the scrapers 

 in a sufficient, or rather a considerable quantity, 

 from the whole surface of their bodies. 



As soon as they are scraped, and rubbed per- 

 fectly dry, they are to be wiped over with rub- 

 bers, and, being comfortably re-clothed and sad- 

 dled, they are to be ridden out on to the downs 

 to take their gallops, and afterwards walked 

 about till the time arrives for them to go into 

 the stables to be well dressed and done up with 

 the other horses. 



Before we proceed to the sweating of the third 

 class, it may not be out of place here to make 

 some further remarks on the tempers and dis- 

 positions of thorough-bred horses that are in 

 training ; for those of my readers who may not 

 have become familiar with such horses early in 

 life, or who may not have made them their parti- 

 cular study, can have but very confined ideas of 

 the sagacity and resolution some of these animals 



