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At what age Colts may best be handled.

WHen your Horse-colt hath been bred as is afore appoint∣ed, the best age in my opinion to take him up to break, is when he shall be full four years old and the vantage, or if you may spare him and have good close ground to keep him in, rather at five years old and the vantage, for then will his joynts and sinews be strong, and wel knit, his hoof ever tough, and not brittle, his eye-sight good, his chin strong, so that you can∣not hurt him, neither in breaking nor in reasonable riding, besides he will last a good Horse till he be 24: or 25. year old, wheras if you will take him up at two or three years old, as we commonly do, you shall find him afterward▪ many times blind, brittle hoofed, weak backd, full of windgales and splints, and shew himself to be an old stiff Horse, before he come to be ten years old, as the most part of their Spanish Horse do, because they are taken up so young; which is, because that in Spain they have no good close ground to let their Colts run longer in, and not for any other Commodity.