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over fuch Cromdi as you are likely to run e». and beSt 

 agrees with yous Horfes Bumour^ and be fure make 

 ciioicc ot the FleeieFl hounds you can get, and then 

 your Horfe will be kept up to the htght of \\is fpeed. 



As to the Number of Train-fcems that you are to 

 ride at a time, 1 hat you muft order according to your 

 Match ^ or f which is better)according to your Horfe's 

 ftrength^ and ability for performing his Heats. For 

 if ^0]} labour h\m\)t^ox\(\h\%li:rength^ twill take him 

 o^\\\%fyeed, weaken his Limbs^ and daunt his Spirit. 

 If you give him too little Exercife, it will give oppor- 

 tunity for pirfivenejs and ill humours^ as Glut, &C. 

 to increafe in him, and gain in him a habit of Laz.i- 

 jiefs^ that when he comes to be put to labour above 

 his nfual rate^ he will grow reslijf^ ^^adi fettle like a 

 Jadcy either of which will redound to your difcredity 

 and therefore it mull: be from your own l^owledge in 

 thc/?^fpof hisBody,and not from zny general Direfii^ 

 ons in writing, that you mud Iteer your Courfe. 



Only this Dire^mi may be given you, that if you 

 are to run Eight Train-fcents and the (traight Courfe^ 

 more or lefs, you are to put him to fuch fevere labour 

 not above twice in your whole Months keeping j and 

 and if it be in the firft Fortnight^ twill be the, better, 

 for then he will have a compleat Fortnight to recover 

 his sirengthagmn ; and for his labour in his laft Fort^ 

 nighty let it he proportionate to his ftrength and wind^ 

 as fometimes half his Task, and then three parts of it. 

 Onlyobferve. that the /<«/?Tryal you make in the 

 fir f Fortnight be a Traiu-fcent more than your Match, 

 for by that means you will find what he is able to do^ 

 And for the proportion of his Exercife, twice a week 

 (as i have already fid^ is fufficient to keep him 

 in ^y-f^^/;, and yet will not diminiflior injure his ^Z- 

 gour. 



But if your Hunting-match be to run fewer Train- 

 fcents 



