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In estimating the quantity of clothing that would 

 compensate for the loss of warmth caused by the removal 

 of the coat by clipping, I do not think, except in the case 

 of racehorses, that it would exceed that of a thick woollen 

 rug or quarter sheet, especially when the legs are not clipped. 

 Even when taking during winter well-bred hunters which 

 were clipped and in hunting condition to St. Petersburg, vid 

 Revel, on the deck of a steamer through the North Sea and 

 Baltic, on which occasion the cold was far greater than is 

 ever felt in England, I found a rug and a quarter sheet 

 amply sufficient for purposes of warmth. 



VARIOUS KINDS OF CLOTHING. 



A full suit of clothing consists of a quarter sheet, with 

 fillet strings and button loops, breast cloth, roller, roller-cloth, 

 tail-guard, hood, and a set of woollen bandages, with an under 

 rug, if required. The button loops are used to loop up the 

 fillet strings when desired, as in the stable and with mares. 

 A head collar, knee caps, and hock caps may be regarded 

 as accessories. In the clothing of racehorses (Fig. 36), the 

 quarter sheet does not usually come as low down as in that of 

 hunters or carriage horses. 



Clothing is generally divided into warm clothing and light 

 clothing, and into day clothing and night clothing. The best 

 warm clothing is made of kersey, or of fawn or striped 

 blanketing, both of which should, of course, be " all wool." 

 The stoutest blanketing is thicker, heavier, and more loosely 

 woven than kersey, and is consequently warmer, though 

 it is not so strong and durable. Light clothing is made of 

 cotton, linen, or jute, and in this country is used only by day. 

 Warm clothing is generally bound with livery cloth. The 

 usual colour for light clothing is check ; and for warm clothing 

 fawn or check. With a stable of several horses it is well 

 to have a distinctive colour or pattern for the clothing, so that 



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