C^i^c ^untfng^i^otfe. 87 



GH A P IX. 



Of the Means to judge of your Horfes 

 State of Body^ and of curing all Cajit- 

 dhies that may happen after Matching, 



T 'Here arc kvQrz] Obfervations to be made by you 

 during your Dieting your Horfe, which if you 

 mifcarry in, may be the lojs of your Match, or your 

 fljarp ir t'le Pl^,te. Therefore, that you may know- 

 how to proceed regularly in this Jrf, I Ihall endea- 

 vour to fumme i.hem Hp, 



Firil then you are to obferve his Chaule^ XmRibs^ 

 and his FUnh^ according to the Rules formerly laid 

 down J for ii he be clean vaithin^ he will alfo be clean 

 there ^. but yet he may feel clean there^ when he is 

 not clean wtthin\ and thcrt^fore thofe Grooms arc 

 very conceited^ who upon their jirfl view of a Horfe 

 and handling of his Flankji pronounce him to be in a 

 true fiat e, of Body j for gentle j4iring, warm C loath- 

 ing, k?:av! Feeding may difperfe the grofs Fat and 

 6/«?, and drive it trom the f?«rw^^^ parts, fo that he 

 rn^Ly. appear clean, when in reality he is po/- Co: and^ 

 therefore you are only a competent Judg,^ who know 

 how he was clean fed- • , 



Therefore you are to obferve^ firft, whether in ali 

 points you have proceeded according to ^rt in his 

 Training ^ as whether he performs his Heats with t//- 

 j^oraud true c<7«r^jrf, whether he have been all along 

 home-fedy whether you have not fuffer'd purfn^enejs to 

 increafe by too little labour, or abated his Flefh and 



Strength 



