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.

What time of the year is best to wean the Colts from their Dams,

THe best time of the year to wean your Colts is at Candlemas, or Shrove-tide, after the time as your Colt is Foaled, wherein you must use much diligence, for if your Colt be not well weaned, well Summered, and well Wintered, the three first years and namely the first year when he moaneth for his Dam, he shall seldom or ne∣ver come to be a good Horse. And therefore when you wean your Colts, you must bring them to some house ordained for the same purpose, clean

out of the hearing of their Dams, wherein they must be pinned, and not to come abroad the first fourteen days out of the hearing of their Dams, whereunto you must have pasture ad∣joyning wherein they may play, and feed every fair day after the fourteen days past, from the time ye begin to wean them, till grass be fully sprung in May, and put them into some such pasture, as commonly your Milch kine be fed in, where they may neither, feeding in high and rank grass hurt their Reins, or grow thick∣necked, nor for lack of feeding hinder their growth, but feeding in a short sweet grass, may prove well till they have forgotten their Dams