1 40 TRAINING. 



mile gallop, with a couple of half-mile spurts in it, is 

 as long, and strong, and heavy a sweat, as the most 

 gluttonous Arab would ever require, if not too rapidly 

 brought forward. Some turfmen always give the 

 exercising gallop in one jhool to every kind of horse : 

 that may do very well in England, but is not so well 

 suited for India ; it is unnecessary to many, and does 

 harm to others. 



After a sweat, he must be quickly led home, not 

 to have other jhools heaped upon him, but all the 

 lather immediately scraped off with nice bamboo 

 hoops, not too sharp. The wisping must then in- 

 stantaneously succeed, or there is great fear of his 

 taking cold. When cleaned, and the jhool put on, 

 give the cordial, if you think it required, and then 

 mix half a wine-glass of ghee, not oil, with half a 

 wine-glass of brandy, and, immediately the legs are 

 dried after the washing in the hot water, rub it well 

 itf; about the hocks and ankles particularly. If the 

 shanks should become sore, rub in the lotion, for 

 tender shanks, p. 153. 



A lot of frothy, greasy, dirty, scurfy stuff, occa- 

 sionally comes from horses with any superfluous flesh 

 that have not been sufficiently long in training ; and 

 some also from others during their first sweat ; so, if 

 on the second or third sweat he sweats quickly and 

 with much of this, it is proof he is in a foggy state, 

 and it must be repeated again in a week or ten days, 

 giving four or five of the alterative balls, p. 74, one 

 every other evening, as mentioned before under 

 " CORDIAL BALLS," &c., if rather too fleshy ; and if 

 not too fleshy, one drachm of tartarized antimony, and 

 a quarter of a drachm of ginger instead ; but if he 

 proves difficult to sweat, (which he generally will by 



