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. 333.—Ruined afterwards. CHECKING AND BLINDERS. 21. Fig. 334.—Showing the position of the eyes inthe head. horses, and why should it be more necessary to use them uponhorses in harness ? In fact, it is not difficult to see that theyare of a piece with other absurd c
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. 333.—Ruined afterwards. CHECKING AND BLINDERS. 21. Fig. 334.—Showing the position of the eyes inthe head. horses, and why should it be more necessary to use them uponhorses in harness ? In fact, it is not difficult to see that theyare of a piece with other absurd customs referred to in a pre-vious part of this of Blinders.—Itseems that a nobleman inEngland had a fine horsewith a defective eye, toconceal which he attachedblinders, or ** winkers, asthey called them, to thebridle, so as to partlycover the eyes. Thisfinally led to their use byothers, when it was foundthat the outside surfacewas a good place to puton the crest of rank. During my early publicexperience, when I gayeexhibitions in driving horses without reins, it was notice-able that every motion of the whip, though held directly over the horses back, was promptlyobeyed,—that the horse, in fact,could be controlled quicker andbetter by the simple motions ofthe whip than he could by bitand reins, giving the very bestdemonstration of this singularpower. Inst
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