. 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. 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
. 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. 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 so than this senseless overdrawcheck, which article of torture should never be used on any-thing but a kicker, or an animal liable to kick or a hard pulleror lugger; and even then it should be loosened at the earliestpossible moment consistent with safety. A day of watching the best horses in any of the largecities as they are being driven at the present period, will rev^ealthe fact that this cruel torture is imposed on them under theimpression of their owner or driver that the taut overdrawcheck enables them to exhibit more stjde than the loose, com- 334 THE OVERDRAW fortable common check. The real fact is, however, that the horse with neck straight-ened, thus having- head andnose extended forward, isgreatly injured in appear-ance as Avell as being un-necessarily tortured. A well-fed, well-groomed,spirited horse is the mostbeautiful animal in exist-ence ; his beauty consists of—— j_^.^ elegant proportions andthe contrast that comes from his supple movements and hand-some color and the graceful curves that outline his body. All of this is seen from a study of the animal in a natural con-dition. Particularly will the artist observe the graceful arch of the neck of a beautifulhors
Size: 1780px × 1403px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjecthorses, bookyear1895
