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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

is not a wholsomer drink can be given to any horse especially after running CHAP. VII The Way and Method of looking to and keeping your Horse after he has taken this Potion WHen the Horse has taken it then immediately rub his Legs and pull off his Saddle and all other his cloths leaving him nothing on then curry him well and after brush him and with a dusting cloth dust him and again with a new hempen cloth or cloth of hair rub his body in every part but in so doing your greatest pains must be about his head neck and breast this being perfected put on his cloths and keep him as warm as possible and put several handfuls of straw under his girts and then let him remain without either meat or drink for the space of two hours during which time you must watch him and seldom let him stand still for fear of getting cold during the time the Potion is in working nay seep or standing still which he will chuse if he be left alone to himself are alike dangerous by reason that the blood and vital Spirits have not their operation so well as in times of motion nor the heat of the body power to force up the humors that lie as it were absconded in the several parts When he has stood in his Bridle and fasted so long as is before-mentioned or if you think convenient somewhat longer then take ears of wheat about one hundred and offer them to him to eat but let them not be bearded in any-wise but e'er you suffer him to take them feel him all over in what condition or estate of body he is and if you find him sweat on a sudden or any cold clamm over-spread his Limbs which many call a cold sweat or if you observe him to pant tremble or fetch his breath short with-hold your hand and give not any thing for if you do it will much indanger him these being the Symptoms that the Potions has not done working but that it is striving with the vicious humors and soul indigestures of the Body therefore put on his slip and taking off his Bridle stop all the Lights of the Stable the better to keep it dark and secure your Horse from too much Air and let him take his ease in your abseuce for the space of two hours or more by which time the Potion will have done working and his sickness will pass away Then coming to him again if you find him well you may give him the ears of wheat by four or five at a time till the whole parcel is wasted after that if he will eat any more you may suffer him to have the like quantity again and after them a small bundle of Hay bound up very hard and thrown into his Rack but during the time of his eating it be sure to rub him over as you have been taught but more especially his head Within the hour following give him his quantity of Oats as before mingling with them a pint of husked Beans as clean from husks and dust as can be then take tree slices of bread and the crust being cut away crumble them among the Oats and Beans and so give them to him and after he has eaten them let him stand about two hours and a half or three if you please Then coming to him give him some Bait again of each the same parcel as before then dress him down well and put on his cloth but put not on his Saddle nor back him neither let him have any water that night but keep him within doors for if you do otherwise you will endanger your horse CHAP. VIII The manner of making these Balls and their Virtue with an account of what Diseases they are most powerful to cure TAke the powder of Elicampane-Roots Cummin-seeds and Fenugreek-Seeds of each two ounces beaten and sifted as fine as you can possible to which put two ounces of Sugar-candy brown if you please beat that likewise fine flower of Brimstone the like quantity one ounce of the juice of Liquorice then wetting them with half a pint of White-wine set them over the fire after which take one ounce of the Chymical oil of Aniseeds and three ounces of the Syrup of Colts-foot add to these of olive-Olive-oil Honey and Syrup or melted Sugar all of them being the best you can get one pint and a half that is of each half a pint proportionable then mingle all these Ingredients together and thicken them into paste with fine wheat-flower and so make them up into Balls for your use you must not make them above the bigness before-mentioned or if you please you may make them up as you use them put them or the Paste up into a gally-pot and stop it close and it will keep a long time For the use of them take these instructions for their virtues are very great First then if you use them for any sickness or dulness in your Horse anoint or rub them over with sweet Oil or Butter and so give them to him each Morning as you were taught before and after give him a gentle breathing and let him drink but if the weather be foul take him not out But if for cold or any infirmity in his Stomach you may give them to him till you perceive it is wasted and gone The Virtues of them are for several other things as Glanders Heaviness to purge away any molten grease to recover a lost Stomach Faintings and Heart-Qualms and to make any tolerable Horse fat to admiration but to your Race-Horses you must give for strengthning and cherishing the Spirits But now to the fourth and last fortnight for preparing your Horse which must begin with his last diet CHAP. IX The manner of making his last Diet. IN this you must use three Pecks of Wheat and but one of Beans and let them be ground together upon the black Stones as small as possible they can be then dress it through an exceeding fine dressing-cloth for note that every Bread must be finer than the former Then put to it the fore-mentioned quantity of Ale-Yest but be sure it be not sowre nor the Grounds Then knead it together and make it up into Loaves as formerly but to this above what has been spoken of you must add the Whites of two or three and twenty Eggs and instead of water put milk so much as will make it up They being baked let them stand their usual time and then cut the Crust away or as some call it chip them after which dry a quart of Oats well and after that sift them so that there be no defect left in them to which put your Beans in like manner ordered and at the usual times give them all three mingled together to him As for his Heating and Coursing-days the first week they must be punctually observed but the second you must abate him one that is heat him but once and that must be Mondays hear After he has stood one hour more