i^2 Tfce Cotffphat Uorfeman : or. 



At the end of a Year, in the fame Seafon, viz. a r 

 bout Martinmas, you are to take in the Foals again, 

 which will now be a Year and an half old. Order, 

 tie, and drefs them as the reft of your Horfcs, and 

 make them as gentle and familiar as poflible. The 

 next Summer, when they are two Years old, you 

 may again put them to Grafs, or keep them in the 

 Stable, that you may the more eafily fit them for' 

 backing ; but they are never to be buck'd until they 

 be full three at leaft. 



c There are fome Colts which having been well 

 1 fed until they be a Year old, will attempt the co- 

 c vering the Fillies. This rarely happens at one 

 c Year old, but frequently at one and a half, and 

 c others at two, and two and a half, according to 

 c their Conftitution and Feeding. So foon as you 

 1 perceive this, you mult feparate them, left they 

 c mould fpoil themfelves. 



It is good to houfe your Foals every Winter, and 

 to put them to Grafs every Summer, until they be 

 paft three Years old, and they will be much the 

 Bxonger and better fhap'd. It matters not what 

 •kind of Pafture they feed in, providing it be but 

 dry, and have a watring- place in it *, for if they can 

 fill their Bellies once in twenty four Hours it is 

 fufficient.' The Secret therefore of railing fine 

 Horfes in cold Countries, confifts in nothing elfe 

 than keeping them warm in Winter, feeding them 

 with dry Food, and turning them out in Summer to 

 dry Paftures. * 



Take two Colts alike well-fhap'd, begot by the 

 fame Stallion upon two Mares equally beautiful, and 

 keep one of them warm in the Winter-time, feed- 

 ing him alfo with dry kind of Food until he be three 

 Years old, and he will be almoft as well-fhap'd as 

 his Sire, which I fuppofe to be either a Barb or Spa- 

 nifh Horfe. Suffer the other again to run all Win- 

 ter in the Fields until he be three Years old, and 

 * he 



