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Title: The horse and the war
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Galtrey, Sidney, 1878-1935
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : "Country life"
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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me may be heavier in physique than the vast majority, but these latter areas if they had all come out of the same mould. By comparison the Britishlight draught is a nondescript, a misfit. He could be anything—a half-bredShire or Ciydesdale, a Welsh cob, a heavyish Hackney, a Cleveland bay, ora heavy-weight hunter without true hunter lines and action. All theseodds and ends of horse-flesh we have seen pass through remount depots enroute to the theatres of war. They were classed as light draught becausethey were neither heavy draught nor riding horse. But the Yankee wasessentially and absolutely a light draught horse, true to type, varying not atall in character and very little in the non-essential details. He is the realequine hero of Ihe war, and by his triumphs, which must be as real in peacetime as in war, he simply must take his place, and an important one, too, inthe horse population of these Islands. Some fu ther light may be shed on his personality if we resume our associa- 36
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38 THE HORSE AND THE \\ AR tion with him at the point at which we left him in the last chapter. He hadthen stepped ashore—a stranger, indeed, and an obvious alien-—from thesteamer which had been his stable for about three weeks. We may remindyou of his dishevelled state, and a critical onlooker, having no knowledgeof his virtues, might have been excused for promptly arriving at wholly wrongconclusions. Let it not be forgotten that a horse thus cribbed, cabined,confined on shipboard must inevitably lose condition and show signs ofphysical wastage. Some, of course, will do so more than others. It is aquestion influenced as to degree by temperament, for the nervous animalmust worry and fuss more than his phlegmatic and stoical companion. Thenthe feeding is not conducive to the retention of condition. Normal feedingon hard corn would quickly produce fever in the feet and intestinal complicationsin a horse which is denied all chance of exercise and which must stand ina very narrow stal

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