The gentlemans jockey, and approved farrier instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use, as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire, Matthew Hodson, Mr. Holled, Mr. Willis, Mr\ Robinson, Mr. Holden, Thomas Empson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Medcalf, and Nathaniel Shaw.
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The gentlemans jockey, and approved farrier instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use, as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire, Matthew Hodson, Mr. Holled, Mr. Willis, Mr\ Robinson, Mr. Holden, Thomas Empson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Medcalf, and Nathaniel Shaw.
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Halfpenny, John, 18th cent.
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London :: printed for Hen. Twyford in Vine-Court Middle-Temple, and Nath. Brook at the Angel near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill,
1676.
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Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800.
Horses -- England -- Training -- Early works to 1800.
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"The gentlemans jockey, and approved farrier instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use, as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire, Matthew Hodson, Mr. Holled, Mr. Willis, Mr\ Robinson, Mr. Holden, Thomas Empson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Medcalf, and Nathaniel Shaw." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44531.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2025.
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Observations in Feeding.
AGain, Our Keeper must observe, that if there be any meat, drink, or other nou∣rishment, which he knoweth good for the Horse, if the Horse refuseth to take it, in this case he shall not violently thrust it upon the Horse, or by force cram him therewith; but by gentle degrees and coming enticements, and by pro∣cess of time win him thereunto; rempting him when he is most hungry or most thirsty, and if he get but a bit at a time or a sup at a time, it will soon increase to a greatter quantity, and ever let him have less then he desireth. And that he may the sooner be brought to it, mix the meat he loveth best with that he loveth worst, the drink he loveth the best, with that he loveth the worst, till both be made like
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familiar, and so shall the Horse be a stranger to nothing that is good or wholesome.
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