. American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman's encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, shoeing, and general management. The modern and practical horse doctor on the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of all kinds. THE OVERDRAW CHECK. 333. into the collar by a taut check-rein, a useless and painful in-cumbrance, introduced by vanity and retained by thoughtless-ness amounting to cruelty. THE OVERDRAW CHECK. While it has its advantages in c
. American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman's encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, shoeing, and general management. The modern and practical horse doctor on the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of all kinds. THE OVERDRAW CHECK. 333. into the collar by a taut check-rein, a useless and painful in-cumbrance, introduced by vanity and retained by thoughtless-ness amounting to cruelty. THE OVERDRAW CHECK. While it has its advantages in controlling kickers and pullers,and especially pullers inraces liable to checkdown, this, nevertheless,is a cruel and barbarousappliance to the averagedriving or business horse;for under the continuedstrain of the overdrawcheck something mustsoon give away (for everyhorse, as w^ell as man, hashis weak points), and if not the body the temper soon wearsout. Although large dealers train their sale horses to this checkthey recognize the harm of it when they say that customerswho practice short checking wear out their horses more quicklyand sooner return for fresh ones. One years hard checkingcaused a pair of Kentuckys valuable coach horses to becomeso sway-backed as to be wholly unfit for good use. Of allcruel devices inflicted on this noble animal none has ever comeunder my observation more
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