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Title: Our horses : or, The best muscles controlled by the best brains
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Saunders, Alfred
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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box of the coach, when no horses are in it, willbe the best place to practice this, as you must learn to reachyour leaders without endangering your passengers, and to touchfree animals up without cutting them up. There is considerabledifficulty in using any long thonged whip without striking tooseverely with it. It is also necessary to learn to carry the whipgracefully, without thinking about it, with the end of the thongwound round the handle, so that the doubled thong can be usedon the wheelers, or the whole length of the whip set free withone haiTbd, to reach the leaders. It will too be found to require nosmall care and skill to prevent getting such a whip hitched insome part of the harness. This is, however, a part of a driverseducation that is not often neglected, as boys are often too fondof a whip, and drivers are far too prone to display their skill withit, at the expense of horses that require no such exhibition. For driving slow heavy horses see breaking to slow draft(404).
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COMMON NAMES FOR VARIOUS PARTS OF THE HORSE. 1 Hoof 2 Pastern 3 Fetlock Joint 4 Shank 5 KneeC Arm 7 Breast 8 Point of Shoulder 9 Lower Jaw 10 Muzzle 11 Face 12 Forehead 13 Poll 14 Crest 15 Withers IG Back 17 Loins 18 Hip 19 Croup 20 Quarter 21 Thigh or Gaskin 22 Hamstrings 23 Hock 24 Back Sinews 25 Sheath2G Flank 27 (lirth 28 Elbow Q CHAPTER XX. SELECTING A HORSE. 57G.—There is such a vast difference in horses, bothconstitutionally, and educationally, that a proper selection is animportant and often a very difficult business. SIZE. 577.—AVhere weight has to be moved the horse should belarge and heavy in proportion to it. Height does not give powerbut weight does, and a horse cannot move great weights withoutit. The little pair of horses we so often see at plough, mustnecessitate either shallow ploughing or Hght land, and we havefar more faith in the crop of wheat or beans to follow, where wesee a pair of heavy Shire horses putting out all their strength,on a single farrow, or four

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