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have seen one sweat between tlieir twice running 

 change horses for the worse astonishingly. It is 

 destruction to horses to sweat them in the man- 

 ner they are sweated at Newmarket, as the prac- 

 tice there is to sweat them once in six days, 

 sometimes oftener ; and between those days of 

 sweating, it is usual for the horse to go out twice 

 a day, each time having strong exercise. In. 

 these sweating days the horses are mostly covered 

 with cloths, two or three times doubled, and go 

 in their sweats six miles, more or less, and at 

 times go tolerably fust. Directly the horse 

 pulls uy, he is hurried into the stable which is on 

 the spot for that purpose. As soon as he gets in, 

 there is often more cloths thrown upon him, in 

 addition to those he has been his sweat in. 

 This is done to make the horse sweat the more, 

 and he stands thus for a time, panting, before 



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