The Compleat J-!orfeman» CHAP. L 



in tlieir.Wind by Glanders or otherwife, no way fubjed to 

 Maingc, Mallender, Sellender, Splents, Spaven, Curb, Ring- 

 bone, Scratches, Kybed heels, orany other the like forances; 

 that they be not Cock-thropled, but their Throples very 

 loofe :, fo,r let either Stal] ion or Mare have any of thefe mala- 

 die tbefi be yon well sfTured their Colts will take them as 

 hereditary ircm their Parents : Infomuch as when you elleem 

 your fel confident of fuch young Horfes, you fo much defired 

 to be m-.ller of,you will be miftaken j for inlleadof a Stirricr 

 or Horfe for manage, you have bred him fit for nought elfe 

 but the plough \ and in the place of a Hunter,he proves a Mill- 

 . horfe , and in hope you had a Horfe for a Courfe,he proves for 

 no better ufe but the Cart j and him you defire to have for 

 your own Pad- laddie, you v^ill be conftrained to fell him to a 

 Carrier, to bear a Pack-faddle with a burthen. 



To come to intreat of the time raoft fitting for covering 

 your Mares, let that be fo done-, that they may call their Poles 

 in the dead or Winter \ as either in £>ecemher or Jannary^iov 

 during their tin;e of going with Pole, to wit, from the day 

 of their Covering, unto that of their Poling, is commonly 

 twelve moneths, and ten days j Yet fome do aver, they do 

 want eleven days of twelve moneths, of which computation 

 there is juft three weeks odds ^ Others again do affirm, that a 

 Mare goeth but only eleven moneths and ten days, v»'herein is 

 greater odds , but I h ve found it to be a moft certain rule 

 which never did fail me (uniefs in a young Mare upon herfirft 

 Colt, who will want fome few days of the o;-dinary account) 

 and long and frequent experience: hath made me to be very per- 

 fed) that a Mare goeth ^nnlefs fome mifchance or other acci- 

 dent hath otherwifeoccaii'-iitd) twelve moneths and ten days : 

 For when at any time I have been prefent when a Mare hath 

 been covered, 1 have in the very rninute entred into my Alma- 

 nack, the very day and hour in which (he took the Horfe ^ and 

 becaufe I would not be deceived, I have been prefent at her fol- 

 ing, and I have found the time never to fail me. And therefore 

 1 could wifh all breeders to obferve with me the fame courle, 

 and they (hall find this account to fall out juft as I have deli- 

 vered. If your Mare be covered about S. Lncies day, which is 

 XhQ thinccnth of Decemher^ then will ihe fole 2bout S.fhx>maf 



day 



