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.

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Creator:: Cecil
Title(s):: 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.
Additional Title(s):: Stud farm
Published/Created:: Hints on breeding for the turf, the chase, and the road
London : 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
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
SF291.C43 S78 1851 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/5455066
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Frontispiece engraved by Edward Hacker.
With one wood engraving within the text.
Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 185
BAC: 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.
Subject Terms:: Grimwood, J.G. -- Autograph.
Horses -- Breeding -- Great Britain.
Race horses -- Breeding -- Great Britain.
Smith, Harry Worcester -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:: Steel engravings -- 1851.
Wood engravings -- 1851.
Publisher's advertisements.
Contributors:: Hacker, Edward, 1813–1905, engraver.
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, publisher.
Spottiswoodes and Shaw, printer.
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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.

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