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pace is not to be increased until they come to 

 that part of the ground at which it is thought 

 the hearty or light horses can finish or live in 

 their own length of rally in concluding either 

 their gallops or sweats, and which is occasionally 

 necessary for them to do, as when they are draw- 

 ing near to the time of their running. But with 

 regard to the stronger-constitutioned colts or 

 horses, these, in the concluding of their con- 

 dition, that is, in their last two sweats, should 

 be made to come at a good telling pace for 

 a little longer length than they have to run, 

 provided the weights upon them, including the 

 clothes, the exercise saddles, and boys, do not 

 much exceed the weights they will have to carry 

 when they come to post. 



To avoid as much as possible enlarging this 

 volume to an unreasonable size, we refer the 

 reader, for the further orders necessary to be 

 given as to how two-year olds are to be sweat- 

 ed, to the two chapters on sweating yearlings 

 (Chaps. 17, 18); and for the details of how 

 they are to be got ready for their sweats, and 

 the treatment to be had recourse to on their 

 being pulled up from them, to two other chap- 

 ters, tlie one (Chap. 21) on half a dozen horses 



