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 heavy, and the practice is to put more clothes 

 upon the horse, and order him to go a longer 

 sweat. But the horse in this stage of his training 

 is the less able to bear more cloths, and go 

 further in his sweats ; for the horse himself being 

 heavy, that, with boy and cloths, at times has a 

 great weight upon his legs ; that with this pressure 

 and his work heating him, it makes his sinews 

 full and weak ; and thus working a little too fast 

 or too long upon his sinews at one stretch, they 

 are forced out of their places. This once done, 

 the horse seldom stands training after. 



It is ignorant cruelty in the great number of 

 horses being thus unskilfully lamed at Newmar- 

 ket ; and gentlemen not only lose the use of their 

 horses and their money by it, but it so greatly 

 deprives them of the sport that they otherwise 

 would have. 



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