. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. An Act o{ the Mustang Pony Refered to with Illustration on Page 30, And In Facts for Horse Owners, Page 443, where Full Particulars are Given. Chapter XL I. Fig. 293.—Horse in Nature. CHECKING AND BLINDERS. Cruelty of Checkino. N sitting, walking, or standing, every person knows how tiresomeit is to maintain one position very long, and that a frequentchange of position is equivalent to resting. It would be compara-tively easy to move the handup or down, which could bedone almost indefini
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. An Act o{ the Mustang Pony Refered to with Illustration on Page 30, And In Facts for Horse Owners, Page 443, where Full Particulars are Given. Chapter XL I. Fig. 293.—Horse in Nature. CHECKING AND BLINDERS. Cruelty of Checkino. N sitting, walking, or standing, every person knows how tiresomeit is to maintain one position very long, and that a frequentchange of position is equivalent to resting. It would be compara-tively easy to move the handup or down, which could bedone almost indefinitelywithout much inconven-ience ; but to hold it in oneposition perpendicularly orhorizontally, would soon be-come extremely tiresomeand difficult ; in fact, somuch so that it would beimpossible to hold it outhorizontally longer than afew minutes. A French subordinate officer, as a punishment,marched his soldiers all day without allowing them the regulationfreedom of changing the position of their arms, which so injuredthem that it was regarded sufficient cause for inflicting upon himthe penalty of death. Now, checking horses andforcing them to hold theirheads unnaturally high andkeeping them thus arbitrarilyin a fixed position, as I no-tice to be genera
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