316 SWEATING HORSES. 



but beyond this he should never be allowed to 

 strike a horse with a scraper, or indeed with any- 

 thing else, more particularly should the horse be 

 disposed to vice; for such a horse will some- 

 times wait for an opportunity to resent such un- 

 fair treatment. 



As horses go progressively on with their 

 sweats, some of them, towards the conclusion of 

 their condition, draw rather fine or thin, from 

 being stripped of what is commonly called their 

 waste and spare, by which their bones become 

 more exposed to the pressure of the scraper 

 when it is applied to them after their sweats, 

 and this causes many of them on such occasions 

 to be extremely irritable. However, if there is 

 any danger to be apprehended from the scraping 

 of a vicious horse after his sweat, the best way is 

 to get his head and neck done first, and then 

 turn him round in his stall; put on his collar 

 and muzzle, and, having chained up his head, 

 get his quarters and body done as we have 

 already directed, the groom being particularly 

 careful that the boys do not give more pressure 

 to their scrapers than is absolutely necessary to 

 remove the sweat from the surface of the horse's 

 body. 



