320 SWEATING HORSES. 



Thus, as these horses proceed on with their 

 sweats, so in proportion will the whole surface of 

 their bodies have become more or less diminished. 

 The groom, therefore, after his horses have come 

 in from taking their sweating-gallop, must, just 

 previous to their being clothed up, observe how 

 each horse may have become affected by his 

 first two or three sweats, and, indeed, by every 

 sweat, but particularly by the first two or three, 

 as it is from the effects produced on them by 

 these that he must arrange the different in- 

 tervals of time that each horse will have between 

 one sweating day and the other, as well as the 

 quantity of clothing he will require. 



The groom being fully aware of the lusty 

 state his horses were in before they began their 

 sweats, must now steadily watch the changes 

 their sweats produce on them. He is to go up 

 into the stalls of each of his horses, previously (as 

 I have just observed) to their being clothed up; 

 on these occasions he is not only to look them 

 well over, but he must feel and handle them in 

 such parts as are likely to guide him as to how 

 each horse may have become affected by his 

 sweats. He should first feel the crest of his 

 horses, to ascertain how they handle in those 



