The Comfleat Jockey, 



been declared, nor muft you encreafe them, norftrain your Horfe more 

 than you were wont ^ four Heats^ or Courfes will be fufficient for the firft 

 Fortnight, and four Purges or Scowrings tor the whole time of his being 

 made fit for Racking, all which muft be obferved with dilgence and cau-^ 

 tion, according to the forementioned Methods and Inftrudions ^ but now 

 to the Third, &f. 



Chap X. The Third Fortnight^ s Dietting and Ordering your Horfe. 



N'O W for the Manner of making his Bread, it muil be as followeth, 

 _ finer than formerly was wont, muft it be made ^ therefore take but 

 two Pecks of Beans, and with fine Wheat make it up a Bufhel,let them be 

 ground together as formerly, and dreffed exceeding fine, fo that there be 

 hardly a Husk or a Bran to be feen j then with a like Quantity of Yeft as 

 'before, mingle the Meal and add Water to it, fo much as is juft fuffi- 

 cient to make it ftick clofe together ; when it is well kneaded and worked 

 up, you mufl Bake it as you have been taught* 



After which, it having flood about three Days or fomewhat more,pare 

 away the Cruft and give it your Horfe, (that is) three Slices crumbled 

 amongft a Quart of fine dreiled Oats and a Quart of Iplit Beans -^ your 

 Obfervance ihall be in thefe as in the former two Weeks, his Dreffings, 

 Airings -^ times of Feeding, and likewife his Heating-Days muft be parti- 

 ticularly obferved. And take Notice of this. 



That you muflnot, after he has been heated, give him any of the 

 Scowring, but that being laid afide, give him in the room of it Balls a- 

 bout the Bignefs a Pullets-Egg, which are great Cordials and Reftoratives, 

 and you muft give him one at a time ^ thus fitting in the Saddle or other- 

 wife if you pleale, hold up his Head as high as is convenient, and put 

 one of them into his Month and oblige him to fw allow it, but before you 

 give it him you muft rub him down, or according to your Match ; for 

 you muft not heat him for four or five Days before you intend to run your 

 Race, but you may Air him very well, and give him gentle Breathings, 

 that he may in no wile lofe his Wind, but give him none of- the fore- 

 mentioned icouring Drink. 



0ne thing more I have coniidered to quicken his Spirits and make him 

 lively, which is to burn Storax, Olibanum, Frankincenfe and Benjamin 

 " mixed together, which drive away all ill Scents and Airs, and there is no- 

 thing more wholefomer for the Brain, 



As likewife, xvhen you give your Horfe his Oats, Beans, and Bread, 

 waih the two former in neither Ale nor Beer,but take a Pint of Mufcadine, 

 about the Whites of ten Eggs, and fteep them therein, but you need 

 not do it above four times in a Week \ at other times give them to himi 

 dry as formerly. Beware 



