The practical horseshoer Being a collection of articles on horseshoeing in all its branches which have appeared from time to time in the columns of "The Blacksmith and wheelwright" .. . ^ dished below the eyes, and his nose has a round,Roman turn. His jaw is big and wide and, recurring to Fig. 158 Eurus is found to be wide along the line E F and big at He is, be^^ond a doubt, one of the mostinteresting- horses on the American turf. It is never safeto bet heavily against him in a race in which he is entered. THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 263 There is no knowing what we may do. His brain box
The practical horseshoer Being a collection of articles on horseshoeing in all its branches which have appeared from time to time in the columns of "The Blacksmith and wheelwright" .. . ^ dished below the eyes, and his nose has a round,Roman turn. His jaw is big and wide and, recurring to Fig. 158 Eurus is found to be wide along the line E F and big at He is, be^^ond a doubt, one of the mostinteresting- horses on the American turf. It is never safeto bet heavily against him in a race in which he is entered. THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 263 There is no knowing what we may do. His brain box, measured by C D, is very roomy. Eurus undoubtedly reasons. His temper is notorious. He is docile enough ex-cept on the track. ^ A lady could drive him. But in arace he sw^erves and does very much as he chooses. It runsir the breed sometimes for a horse to act that way on thetrack. *Eurus runs best on a muddy track/it is often Fig. 161—Head of Proctor Knott. But none of the equine mind-readers profess to be able totell that from lookmg at him. It is experience only thatproves a horse to be good on the mud. That doesnt showin his features, but it shows in his action and in the actualrecord of what he has done. Looking at Proctor Knotts picture no indication of thelack of ? heart or courage, or perseverance is Knott is a coarse, ragged-looking plebeian of ahorse. His head is unquestionably ugly, when compared ^Gi THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. with even that of Eurus, whose expression is scarcely com-patible with heaut^^ Compared with the Bard of Hanover,Proctor Knotts *plainness becomes absolutely color is a mealy chestnut. The broad blaze widening outover his nose does not enhance his looks. He is not wide across the eyes on the line E F(see Fig. 158), nor is his brain pan, shown by C D, to be capacious. Reading a horses character from his head is like trying*to read a mans character f
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