Having brought him home, let your Groom fo 

 that Night fet him up in jomc fecure and Ipacious 

 Houfe, where he may evacuate his Body, qnd lo be 

 brought to warmer keeping by 'Degrees ^ the next 

 day fahle hira. But tho it be held as a general Ruls 

 amongil the generality of Grooms, not to cUath ov 

 drefi their Horfes, till Two or Three das s alter their 

 ftablin^^ I can find no Reafon but Cuftom' to perfwade 

 one to it j But it being little conducive either to the 

 advantage or prejudice o^t\\Q Horfe, I fhall leave it 

 to their own Fancies : But as to the giving of Wheat- 

 draw , to take up his Belly^ (a cuftom us'd by Grooms 

 generally at the Horfe's firffc Houfing,) I am utterly 

 averfefrom it. For the Nature of a Horfe being 

 hot and ^rj/,if he fhould feed on S;r.2i!y,which is fo like- 

 wife, it would y?r4/;^kf« his Guts, and. caufe an Jn- 

 flammaticn of the Livery and by that means diftemper 

 the Blood i and befides it would make his Body \o 

 uofiive.rh^t it would caufe a Retmton of Nature^2Xid 

 make him dang with gicat pain and difficulty ; Vvrhere-' 

 as///// Feeding would expell the Excrements, accord- 

 ing to the true Intention and Inclina'-ion o{ Nature. 

 Therefore let moderate Airing , warm Chathim^ 

 good old Hay , and old Corny fupply the place of 

 Wheat-jlraw. 



To begin then methodically , that voiir Groom 

 may not be to feek in any part of his Duty, I /hall ac- 

 [juainthim, that his firllbufinefs is, after he hatij. 

 brought his Horfe into the Stable, in the morning to 

 water him, and then to rub over his Body with a hard 

 iVifp a little moiften'd, and then with a woolle;^ cloath -^ 

 then to cleanfe his ShVath with his wet hand from all 

 LheZ)///? it had contracfted during his Running, and 

 to wafh his r.tr^ either v;ith White-wine, or Water^ 

 Then he nuy trim him according to the manner that 

 oilier Horfes are trimm'd, excepc the infide of his 



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