THE 



Compleat Jockey: 



O R, 



The mod exad Rules and Methods to be obferv'd in 



Training up of Race-Horles ; Shewing how to prepare them 

 for any Heats or Courfes ; with the manner of their Keepings, 

 InftrufHons for their DrefTmg and Looking to their Scourings' 

 Diets, Matches and Racings, the hke not Publifhed to the 

 World before. , 



To which is Added^ 



The mofi: Experienced way for Buying Horfes; and Inftruifti- 

 ons to avoid being Cheated upon the like occafion; with a 

 Relation of the Cheats and Tricks the 'Jockeys and Horfe-Cour- 

 fers put on the unexpert Buyers. 



CHAP. I. The hefl Method^ and fpeediefl vray for Orderhiv^ of Race- 

 Hurfes^ toft them for a?iy Matcb^ hi what EJiate foever they be, 



T fuch time as a Horfe is matched, (or defign'd to be matched) 

 for a Kace, or Courfe, let him, to whom the Horfe belongs^, 

 or whofoever flpill have the ordering of that Affair, be very 

 circumfpeft in obferving the Condition or Ability of Body in 

 which the Horfe is at the time of fuch his being matched, which chiefly 

 ought to be taken notice of In three feveral Rules or Methods, the which, 

 I here fhall undertake to lay down for the better fatisfa£tion of thofe 

 whom it hereafter may concern. 



1. The firft of which is. If your Horfe be Foggy, Grofs, or over-fat 

 when he has been lately taken from Graft, or Soil. 



2. The fecond likewife to be oblerved is, If he be more than ordinary 

 Lean, either by Realon of too hard Riding, or any Dileafe has pulled 

 him down by hmdring his feeding. 



3. Thirdly, If he be in good plight, and has had good keeping, dealt 

 well by, and moderately rid or exercifed. 



Now 



