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ficiently fine or thin, agreeably to their ages and 

 constitutions, or the length they have to run, the 

 groom is to increase or diminish the number of 

 sweaters, and regulate the intervals of time be- 

 tween the sweating days of different horses, as 

 occasion may require, after the examinations he 

 may have made. 



Having set them over-night, we will now pro- 

 ceed to sweat half a dozen of the craving sort of 

 horses, the arrangements for which will be much 

 the same as for the like number of horses that 

 went through their first sweat, in the preceding 

 chapter on this subject. But as these have made 

 some progress in their condition, there must 

 therefore be a few alterations made in the orders 

 given by the groom as to how they are to be 

 ridden in their sweats; for having now become 

 somewhat more settled in their stride, and their 

 wind being also improved, they are better able 

 to maintain a certain pace in going over the 

 sweating ground; consequently, they must have 

 boys upon them of sufficient power to hold them 

 as they are going along, and to keep them col- 

 lected and steady in their places; for it is not 

 because this class of horses have a little improved, 

 and are more capable of going a better pace in 



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