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alluded to. The race-horse, comparatively speaking, 

 suffers nothing from the heat while running — in fact, 

 so far as mere atmospheric influence affects him, he 

 is, and feels, absolutely cooler while running, than 

 when walking ; and again, adverting to atmospheric 

 influence only, the faster he goes the cooler he feels, 

 for he then meets a current of air that he did not 

 in his walk ; in fact, he felt far more of the heat in 

 his walk to the race-course, than while running ; and 

 again, suppose situation prevents his being got under 

 shade, where he feels the enervating effects of the 

 heat is just when he would not be pitied, namely, 

 in being walked about the half hour between the 

 heats. We often see a race-horse win, or run a heat, 

 without, in technical phrase, "turning a hair;" but 

 suppose the reverse to be the case, and he sweats 

 profusely, probably this is constitutional habit ; but 

 be it so or not, he very possibly does not feel him- 

 self hotter, if so hot as his rival, who shows no such 

 effects of the race. Profuse perspiration tends to cool 

 the constitution, it is internal fever that consumes ; 

 half sweating a race-horse is not at all unlikely to 



