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to your Race-Horfes you muft give for ftrengthning and cheriiliing the 

 Spirits. But now the fourth and laft Fornight for preparing your Horle, 

 which muft begin with his laft Diet. 



Chap. IX. Tlje Manner of making his laft Diet. 



IN this you muft ufe three Pecks of Weat, and but one of Beans, and 

 let them be ground together upon the Black Stones as fmall as poffible 

 they can be, then Drefs it through an exceeding fine Dreifing-Cloath • 

 for Note, that every Bread muft be finer than the former : Then put to 

 it the formentioned Quantity of Ale-Yeft, but be fure it be not Ibwre, 

 nor the Grounds. Then knead it together, and make it up mto Loaves as 

 formerly ; but to this, above what has been fpoken of, you muft add 

 the Whites of two or three and twenty Eggs, and inftead of Water put 

 Milk, fb much as will make it up. 



They being baked, let them ftand their ufual time, and then cut the 

 Cruft away, or as fome call it, chip them, after which, dry a Quart of 

 Gats well, and after that fift them, fo that there be no defeft left in 

 them, to which put your Beans in like manner ordered, at the ufual times, 

 them all three mingled together to him. 



As for his Heating and Courfmg-Days,the firft Week they muft be pun- 

 £lua]]y obferved, but the fecond you muft bate him one, that is. Heat him 

 but once, and muft be Monday's Heat. After he has ftood one Hour 

 more in his Bridle, you may take three Pintsof Oats, and fteep them in 

 Beer or Ale fbr-a fhort time, and then give them to him, and they will 

 much cheriih him, and allay his Thirft. 



This being done, about an Hour's fpace after, you fhall give him the" 

 former Quantity of Beans, Oats, and Bread in the fame Order, and Man- 

 ner, or if you think it more convenient, you may give them feveral, and 

 not mingle them:, let him by no means want for feeding at Night, 

 for when you make him his laft, give him not only his Bait, but leave 

 him a Bundle of Hay in his Rack bound up very hard. 



Next Morning, as foon as Day appears, you muft give him his firft' 

 Diet, then rub him well in every part^ after which,put on his Cloths and 

 Air him, that is. Ride him abroad, and ufe him as formerly, permittting 

 him to drink freely ^ both Gallop and Rack him, but do not Ride him 

 hard. 



When you return, Drefs him, and feed him with Oats, Beans, and 

 Bread as heretofore, and fome Hay, but not ^o much as you were ufed to 

 give him. 



As for your Heating Days, they muft likewife be obferved in all points 

 as formerly, nor upou any Qccafion negleded, unlefs upon fcch as has 



been . 



