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gora-walla having been placed on each side, take 

 off the night-clothes; and brush him down well for 

 the space of five minutes ; then replace one body 

 jhool and head-piece, &c., or your English set, if you 

 have them, putting the saddle above. The jockey or 

 gora-walla is then to mount, ride him to the course, 

 and walk him about, not at a snail's pace, nor at an 

 amble, but in the manner described at p. 95, and at 

 the utmost extent of his walk, for an hour and a half. 

 The clothes are now to be taken off, the saddle placed 

 well back, (the work properly of less than a minute,) 

 and the canter given ; after which he is to be walked 

 till he is cool, then brought into the stall, and the 

 head tied up instanter, one end of each snaffle rein 

 being buckled forward to the wall, and the mouthing- 

 bit in his mouth ; the heel shackles (with heel ropes 

 attached, if he is disposed to dance from side to side,) 

 having been also fastened, the muzzle put on, and 

 one gora walla, as at daybreak, placed ready on each 

 side, take off the saddle, and wisp him down briskly 

 with dry grass till every hair is smoothed, and the 

 skin is becoming warm again under the belly as well 

 as the body ; that finished, do the same down all the 

 legs and fetlocks, till warmth succeeds to the rub- 

 bing. The hands are to be used next, to get off as 

 much hair as possible ; the syces must dip them in 

 water, and heave strongly against his sides, for after 

 a month all the loose coating ought to be off. One 

 man will now do, if you cannot spare two, to go on 

 with the cleaning. Commence first with the curry- 

 comb, taking care it is not too sharp, and that it is 



used very gently if the skin is at all fine or tender, 

 the curry-comb being only to raise the dust : the 

 hand-rubber second ; and that can scarcely be laid on 



