The stud farm, or, Hints on breeding for the turf, the chase, and the road : addressed to breeders of race-horses and hunters, to landed proprietors, and especially to tenant farmers / by Cecil.
Alternate Title(s):
Stud farm
Published / Created:
Hints on breeding for the turf, the chase, and the roadLondon : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.London : Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-Street Square, [1851]
Physical Description:
xiii, [3], 202 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts SF291.C43 S78 1851 Copy 1
Rare Books and Manuscripts SF291.C43 S78 1851 Copy 2 Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Frontispiece engraved by Edward Hacker.With one wood engraving within the text.Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 185BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in contemporary red three-quarter morocco and red marbled paper covered boards. Ms inscription: J.G. Grimwood.BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in contemporary quarter calf and dark green cloth. Pictorial stamping of gold mare and foal on front cover. Publisher's advertisements are printed on front and rear pastedowns. Bookplate: Harry Worcester Smith.
Contents:
I. Motives for breeding. Site of building and paddocks -- II. Selection of mares -- III. Barren and other mares -- IV. Stallions -- V. Treatment of mares in foal and with foal -- VI. Foals after weaning -- VII. Yearlings, two years old, and others -- VIII. Breaking -- IX. Physic -- X. Shoeing -- XI. Cultivation and management of land -- XII. Food, its properties and effects.
Subject Terms:
Horses -- Breeding -- Great Britain. | Race horses -- Breeding -- Great Britain. | Grimwood, J.G. -- Autograph. | Smith, Harry Worcester -- Bookplate.