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length this morning with these horses, and you 

 know they are heavily clothed, be sure you keep 

 a steady pull on your own horse ; look well before 

 you, so as to keep clear of any small hillocks or 

 uneven parts of ground, that we may have no 

 accident happen to a leg of either of them: be 

 sure you do not hurry them. Rate your own 

 horse at a steady sort of stride, and don't forget 

 to keep him collected, and as well within him- 

 self as you can ; you must not on any account at- 

 tempt to draw him out now with a view to finish 

 the concluding part of the ground at the usual 

 sweating pace; just keep him the whole of the 

 length at the fair even pace with which I have 

 told you to begin. And, Tom, mind that you 

 follow Bill steadily; keep your place; be sure 

 you don't let your horse lay out of his ground." 



The horses, having gone over the sweating 

 ground and pulled up, are turned about and ridden 

 immediately into the stalls of the rubbing-house ; 

 being here turned round, the boys dismount, and 

 as usual slack the girths. The groom is directly 

 to order what portion of clothes he is of opinion 

 is pecessary to be thrown on them, according to 

 the effects he may have observed to have been 



