The Complete jockey, or, The most exact rules and methods to be observed for the training up of race-horses : shewing how to prepare them for any heats or courses, with the manner of their keepings, instructions for their dressing and looking to their scourings, diets, matches, and racings, with every particular to be observed therein ... : to which is added, the most experienced way for buying horses, and instructions to avoid being cheated upon the like occasion, with a relation of the cheats and tricks the jockies and horse-coursers put on the unexpert buyers.

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1695
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London : [publisher not identified], 1695.

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49 pages, 3 unnumbered pages

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Attributed to Gervase Markham; this piece is found attached to the later editions of Markham's Maister-peece. Cf. BM; NUC pre-1956.
Advertisement: p. 49.
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Includes index.

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Wing C5642

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 274:9) s1999 miun s

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