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CHAPTER XIII. 



Training and Management of tlie Race-horse continued — Clothing 

 — Physic — Walking Exercise — Galloping and Sweating. 



Clothing forms an important article in the 

 economy of the training stable, and is of the 

 greatest utihty to the trainer, as by its use in 

 sweating his horses, he is enabled to reduce them 

 to the necessary lightness of body, without running 

 the risk of injuring their legs by very strong gal- 

 lops, or their constitutions by physic ; these latter 

 being the only other means of effecting his ob- 

 ject. 



The clothing in general use in the racing stable 

 is made of a sort of kersey check, of much finer 

 and lighter quality than that which is used for 

 hunters or other horses. It may be of whatever 

 colour the owner may fancy ; and the initials of 

 his name are commonly embroidered on it. 



The clothing may be divided into the following 

 parts, viz. : — the sheet, breast-cloth, quarter-cloth, 



