. The encyclopaedia of sport. perts differ is dwelt on elsewhere,in the pages devoted to Trainers. By reasonof an evil practice much followed by breedersfor sale, the yearlings are frequently so over-loaded with fat that it requires a particularlyexperienced eye to detect their real merits andshape, and only the expert can tell whether theyare likely to grow out of suggested defects and and describe other animals of precisely similarstructure, and very likely nearly related to theseyoung ones, who are said to have emphaticallyupset all such theories and done great thingswhen in training. One i
. The encyclopaedia of sport. perts differ is dwelt on elsewhere,in the pages devoted to Trainers. By reasonof an evil practice much followed by breedersfor sale, the yearlings are frequently so over-loaded with fat that it requires a particularlyexperienced eye to detect their real merits andshape, and only the expert can tell whether theyare likely to grow out of suggested defects and and describe other animals of precisely similarstructure, and very likely nearly related to theseyoung ones, who are said to have emphaticallyupset all such theories and done great thingswhen in training. One is careful to notewhether the yearling is well ribbed up, and, ifhe be not, to refrain from paying too much heedto the theory that slackness here may veryprobably be a sign of speed—many breedershave a pretty invention. Good second thighsmay be traceable even at this early age, unde-veloped as they necessarily are ; and particularattention must be paid to the hocks, to see thatthey are not coarse or curby, that there is good. Yearling Sales. progress in the right way. A few leading points,however, will be evident. One looks to seethat their feet are well shaped and that theystand truly, not turning in their toes or showingother malformation. Evidence of good boneis sought, and the slope of the shoulders isspecially noted. It is a great source of pro-bable trouble if a horse is too upright in good judges are particularly careful toexamine the eye, which is believed to indicatemuch, though others scornfully observe that hprses do not gallop with their heads, anddisregard this. The way in which the head is puton, and certain formations of throat and jowl arevery generally supposed to indicate danger ofroaring, however, and animals so made areto be carefully avoided ; though their breeders,who are usually at hand in person, or are elsewell represented, are slow to admit the evidenceof such failings, and probably ready to name length from hip to hock, and that the hocks
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