Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . ding leg; as, in almost allcases, it is the one which, on landing, is the first to be broughtdown, and which has to bear the whole weight of the body, untilthe other fore leg is carried beyond it and placed on the walk and the amble are the paces at which the horse is, mani-festly, least liable to over-reach. In the trot, both fore legs areequally liable to injury from a hind one. Unless in the case of ahorse being thrown off his balance, the hind foot which inflicts the 6 82 WOUNDS AND BRUISES. injury, wil
Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . ding leg; as, in almost allcases, it is the one which, on landing, is the first to be broughtdown, and which has to bear the whole weight of the body, untilthe other fore leg is carried beyond it and placed on the walk and the amble are the paces at which the horse is, mani-festly, least liable to over-reach. In the trot, both fore legs areequally liable to injury from a hind one. Unless in the case of ahorse being thrown off his balance, the hind foot which inflicts the 6 82 WOUNDS AND BRUISES. injury, will always be the one on the same side as the woundedleg. From the foregoing considerations, we may see that when anover-reach occurs, it will have been caused by the injured fore leg-not having been lifted off the ground in time to make way for thehind leg which followed it. Hence, this accident is usually broughtabout by some mechanical impediment—such as that caused bystepping on soft, irregular, or slippery ground—or by weakness orinability on the part of the Fii -Blackwells iu(.lia-ruh!)er guard to prevent over-reachingand l)rushiniT on the coronet. Preventive measures may be employed by regulating the move-ments of the horse, or by adopting mechanical precautions. Under the first heading, our care, as a rule, should naturally beto teach the horse to carry himself during movement, in such a waythat more or less of the weight on his forehand will be transferredto his hind quarters; in other words, to lighten his forehand,so as to make him readily lift his fore legs out of the way of thehind ones. The methods to attain this end are described in Illus-trated Horsebreaking, and consist in making the animal rein-back, circle, change his leg, and perform other school movements OYER-EEACHES. 83 in a collected manner, both with the long reins and whenmounted. We should carry out the same principle when riding ordriving the animal. In this endeavour, we should stimulate h
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