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who exercises your horse ; and by this, and 

 hy this only, they accumulate, in time, good 

 fortunes. 



It is by the sieve, and by the sieve ma- 

 terially, they make their fortunes. Every 

 time they shake the sieve, to feed your 

 horses, it is to their profit. Generally 

 speaking, they give one horse as much 

 ^mSZTli exercise as the other, whether, from his 

 Horses. naturc, he carries more or less flesh. Can 

 any thing be so absurd, tig to see all the 

 young colts, coming three years old, brush- 

 ing along, as it is termed, after the aged 

 horses, many of them carrying heavier 

 lads, than the aged horses ? I am certain, 

 that most of the delicate horses, v^hich, by 

 nature, do not carry so much flesh as' 

 others, are overtrained and considerably 

 weakened by being immoderately sweated. 

 Every horse should be sweated according 

 to his constitution, and the quantity of 

 flesli he makes. I am certain, that nine 

 in ten would run better, provided they 

 went gently for the last three or four 

 days. 



Horses, of gross habits of body, must 



