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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69785	The Complete jockey, or, The most exact rules and methods to be observed for the training up of race-horses shewing how to prepare them for any heats or courses, with the manner of their keepings, instructions for their dressing and looking to their scourings, diets, matches, and racings, with every particular to be observed therein ... : to which is added, the most experienced way for buying horses, and instructions to avoid being cheated upon the like occasion, with a relation of the cheats and tricks the jockies and horse-coursers put on the unexpert buyers ...	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5642; ESTC R217396	39,637	56

or somewhat more order them also in the like manner before you give them to him after which leave him for the space of two hours and let him remain during that time in as much darkness as your Stable is capable of and not only then but always in your absence for the more obscure and dark he is kept the better will he eat his meat and the better will he take his rest for note a Horse will seldom lie down in a Stable that is very light unless he be much wearied either with standing or Travel to cause the more darkness many are used to line their Stables or at least the Stall where the Horse designed for Race stands with Sacking or Canvas not only to make it dark but to keep him the warmer by sheltring him from wind and dust After the end of the said two hours which is about one of the Clock you must visit him again and give him another the like quantity of Oats ordered as the former and rub his head neck and face as before which done give him a small bundle of Hay hard twisted together and let him alone to eat that by himself and so let him continue till four of the Clock if the days be long but if short not past three Then according to the time come to him again and the Stable being well cleansed wet the Bit of his Bridle in Beer and so fasten the Reins of it to the Rack as soon as you have put it on which being done take off his cloths and dress him according to what you were taught in the morning he being well dressed bring him forth and put his Saddle upon his Cloths as formerly and endeavour to make him piss upon his Dung and old Litter cast without the Stable then as soon as you please you may mount him and ride him as in the morning only let this difference be generally observed that you ride him not up any hills that are steep in the evening but upon the plainest and firmest ground you can find or if you will for change sometimes in smooth green Meadows that are dry or by running waters if they lie convenient or that there be any near you and let him take all the Air he can and often suffer him to gaze upon the Stream but suffer him not to stand still but keep him in a continual motion either Galloping or short Pacing which many give the term of racking if he at any time as you lead him in or out of his Stable offer to smell to any Horse-dung though not his own hinder him not for that will cause him to evacuate and fit him the better for his meat When he is well watred and well aired at the cool of the day or if it be within night it matters not bring him home for note there is nothing better to rid him of gross and foul hmours than to be abroad with him early and late and when he is come to the Stable observe that nothing according to former ordering of him be omitted but all done with care and diligence the which I hope by this time you have so well taken notice of that I need not to repeat it over again let his diet be likewise the same and let him stand at it by himself two hours or more according to the Season of the Year in his cloths in Winter you may let him stand till nine before he has his Bait for all night in Summer later if you please then coming to visit him you must give him near three pints of Oats sifted dress him in every part give him a small bundle of Hay in his Rack and after having raised his Litter leave him till the enssuing morning When betimes you must abroad with him again and use him as you have been taught so that in the space of two weeks you may bring him to such a pass as he will be fit to ride or take any moderate heat but beware how you strain him too much for it will do him a great injury thus having after the exactest manner instructed you as to the first fortnights keeping I shall next proceed to give you Rules and Methods for giving him Courses or as some term them Heats c. CHAP. III. Orders most carefully to be observed in the Coursing or Heating your Horse TO begin with which I must inform you that you must not give above two Courses in a Week for if you do you will spend him too much although he be never so lustly and thereby weaken him and make him unfit for your Race The next thing to be observed is that one of the times must be upon the day you design he shall run the Match the two days must be as equally distant from each other as you can divide the Week therefore you ought to make your Match accordingly Mondays and Fridays or Tuesdays and Saturdays are the fittest if you can so model the affair for those days have the most distance between them if your Match be designed on the Monday let that and Friday be his heating days But if on Tuesday or Wednesday then Saturday must be the other that must serve to both because it is unseemly to do it on the Sunday and so you may observe of whatsoever day it shall fall out to be that you keep as near as you can an equal distance of time between his Courses or Heats But again you must be sure to observe in what weather you ride him at such times for if it be wet that is if it either Rain Snow or Hail you must not give him any heat till such time it be fair unless necessity urge it as when it rains most part of the Week or so and then you must chuse the time when it holds up best and let him be covered very warm not only his Body but his Head Neck Ears Breast and Shoulders for his Head you must provide a covering made with little bags to put his ears in and be sure you keep him abroad as little time as possible for the damp raw Air will at such times indanger much his health But to the last particular that is to be taken notice of in this Chapter be sure if the weather be fair and serene get him dressed and abroad with him as soon as day-light appears but not before by reason it is very incommodious in this case both to the Horse and Man and thus much concerning his Courses or Heats which is the most necessary thing to be observed in preparing him for your Match now to the second order of his Keeping and Feeding CHAP. IV. The manner of his second Fortnights Feeding and the care to be observed therein IN this as in the former you must be circumspect to observe the cleaning of his Stall giving fresh Litter and keep it lighted up that his Bed may be always soft and the old with his Dung and Stale cast out at the Stable-door then when you