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if the animal shows no signs of breaking out, he should be 

 led home to his stable without further delay. 



During the colder months — November, December, and 

 January — the distance may be increased. 



With the clothing I have described, a five or six mile 

 trot, or alternate trots and canters, will be sufficient for 

 ordinary horses possessed of no remarkable gameness or 

 stoutness. 



Light-carcassed horses will not require sweating at all ; 

 as a four-mile gallo^D at half speed without clothing, or 

 with only a hood, or one light suit, once a fortnight will be 

 all that is generally required. 



If, after a sw^eat, a horse refuses his corn, he should 

 get some green food, such as carrots or lucerne, during the 

 day, a bran mash at night, no work next day beyond 

 walking, and his regular gallops should not be commenced 

 again until he has recovered his appetite and spirits. As 

 a general rule, a horse should not be worked on the day 

 following a sweat, which, for that reason, is usually given 

 on a Saturday. 



In the case of a lusty horse with doubtful fore legs, it 

 would be dangerous to trust alone to exercise to get him 

 fine enough, or even to sweating in the ordinary way, 

 which, from the extra weight carried, would try his legs 

 too much. Such a one will probably require physic once 

 a month, and once a fortnight a sweat, which may be 

 given at a trot, or by trotting and walking alternately, and 

 later than usual in the morning, so that the heat of the 

 sun may aid the wasting process without entailing extra 

 work on the legs. Gross horses with infirm forelegs are 

 always the most difficult to bring out ; for the heavier they 



