. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. BEVEN-YEAB-OLD MOUTU. 69 the ccn- ! by the will pi'c- hau the I, arifl it indocl by lul there e deprcs- ilso II de- 1 of ena- le in the with the ch it pre- l edge ot customed lid a plain u to draw adcr, and il are more ih has at- long, con- A the ex- y \ip, and low be said outh. All iced, fully therto 6U8- jury. Du- changep of has suffered 3 supposed rs—see fig. the way in ;cribed it, is ing away in altered. It is rounded at the poi
. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. BEVEN-YEAB-OLD MOUTU. 69 the ccn- ! by the will pi'c- hau the I, arifl it indocl by lul there e deprcs- ilso II de- 1 of ena- le in the with the ch it pre- l edge ot customed lid a plain u to draw adcr, and il are more ih has at- long, con- A the ex- y \ip, and low be said outh. All iced, fully therto 6U8- jury. Du- changep of has suffered 3 supposed rs—see fig. the way in ;cribed it, is ing away in altered. It is rounded at the point, rounded at the edges, still round without, and bci:inninerienccd cxaviiner in giving a positive oj)inion ! * " Dishonest dealers have been said to resort to a method of prolonging the mark in the lower ni})per8. It ' called Bishop- ing, from the name of the scoundrel who invented it. Tlie liorse of eight or nine years old—for his mouth, see fig. 11—is thrown, and with an engra- ver's tool a hole is dug in the now almost plain surface of the corner teeth, in shape resem- bling the mark yet left in those of a seven-year-old horse. The liole is then burned with a heated iron, and a permanent black stain is left. The next ])air of nippers arc sometimes slightly touched. An ignorant man would be very easily deceived by this trick; but the ir- regular appearance of the cavity, the diffusion of the black stain around the tushes, the sharpened edges and concave inner surface of which can never be given again, the r. arks on the upper nippers, together with the general conformation of the horse, can never deceive the careful examiner. " Horsemen, after the animal is eight years old, are accus- tomed to look to the nippers in the upper jaw, and some conclu- * I have myself italicised this passage, because it is a common error In the United States, and one especially insisted on by dealers having old horses to sell, that the age can be positively ascertained even to te
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