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Title: "Centaur" : or The "turn out," a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses, either in harness, saddle, or stable; with hints respecting the harness-room, coach-house, &c.
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Gough, E. W
Subjects: Horses Horsemanship
Publisher: London : Hardwicke and Bogue
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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the bit or rein;And feet that iron never shod,And flanks unscarred by spur or rod ;A thousand horse, the wild, the free.Like waves that follow oer the sea. It is very doubtful whether at the present day anytruly descendants of an original wild stock of horsesexist. Dr. Gray observes that the wild horse, as de-picted by Gmelin, very much resembles the ponies leftat liberty on the commons of Cornwall, and on themountains of Scotland, and are rather domestic animalswhich have become deteriorated. The wild horses ofAmerica, although they retain their size and form andhave not deteriorated, are the descendants of the domestichorses taken to America by the Spaniards. Horseswere first landed at Buenos Ayres in 1537, and thatcolony having been for a time desserted, the horses wereallowed to run wild; in 1580, forty-three years after-wards, they were found wild at the Straits of Magellan.In the Pampos they abound, but these are not descend-ants of horses that had never been subjugated to man.
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t t. HORSEY PHRASES, SLANG TERMS, AND RACY REMARKS. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. In order to render this work as acceptable to allclasses of readers and as easily understood as possible; alltechnical phraseology, cant language, slang terms, orstable expressions have been studiously avoided. As,however, our readers may meet with such terms in otherworks or in the periodical literature of the day, and maybe at a loss to understand their meaning, it has beenconsidered that an exposition of some of the morefrequently used terms and phrases may be of service. Aselection of these has therefore been made by the authorfrom memory, and such explanations given as will enableanyone to understand their meaning, whether on the turf,in the auction room, or stable. A Mark—A niny; to take advantage of; good impression ; made hismark. A Poney of Beer—Small glass. Bishoper—One skilled in horse dentistry, (but not for the general weal.) Beaning—Placing a pebble between the shoe and

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