SWEATING HORSES. .'H 1 



tlierefore, frequently to go long- gallops, and 

 many of them have to sweat at least three times 

 a fortnight. I have known some, from having to 

 undergo great exertions in this way, to get sulky 

 with their work; and, when they do, it is ex- 

 tremely difficult to make them keep straight on 

 with the pace it may be necessary they should go 

 in their exercise; they lurch or swerve, or they 

 will, in spite of the boy's exertions, slacken their 

 pace, and then suddenly run right out from the 

 straight course in which it was intended they 

 should have gone. A horse that does this is 

 said, in the language of the turf, " to have shut 

 up and gone out." 



Whatever habits, as to vice or tricks, horses 

 may be addicted to, it has been thought, by most 

 of those who have had the care of them, that 

 tjiey are hereditary in them, and I am myself 

 much of this opinion; notwithstanding, I do not 

 think that it is by any means the natural disposi- 

 tion of horses to be vicious, if well and kindly 

 treated. Horses of the description we are now 

 alluding to must in times back have undergone 

 as great and repeated exertions in their training, 

 to have brought them out in a fit state to run, as 

 the same description of horses have to do at the 



