The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. 304.—The head as usually drawn up with the overdraw check. the horse, which was not infrequent. This was carried to suchan extreme by many, that it became the point of ambition ofthe professional dealer to have a horse with the shortest andmost elevated tail, with
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. 304.—The head as usually drawn up with the overdraw check. the horse, which was not infrequent. This was carried to suchan extreme by many, that it became the point of ambition ofthe professional dealer to have a horse with the shortest andmost elevated tail, with a short tuft of hair hanging to it. Toshow that this is true, I give an illustration of such, copiedfrom the English work before named. This custom, absurd asit may seem, was as common about a generation ago as theoverdraw check is now. CHECKING AND HighCheckiug.— Soon afterthe inauguration of trotting, itwas found that horses of cer-tain temperament and form couldbe made to trot more reliablyand faster by holding the headchecked high, and soon consid-erable ingenuity was displayedin the development of the bestmethods of doing this. Thiswas resorted to with the sameobject with which toe weights Fig. —A gentle family horse; showingand other means are now used, the discomfort and pain of 111 1 r 1-11 liigh checking. to hold and lorce more reliably in the trotting gait. Down to about fifteen years ago the check in general use consisted of a simple strap, the endsof which were attached to the rings ofthe bit, passed through the lugs oneach side attached to the throat-latch,and back to the saddle-hook. Theshorter the strap, and the higher theselugs were placed, the higher the headwas necessarily drawn up and good illustration of the extreme ofsuch checking is shown in Fig. 316. Various improvements were madeon this met
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