[CHAPTER IV].
TEACHING THE COLT HIS PACES.
The walk—Ignorance of Englishmen as to the value of the walk—Australian walking horses—The trot—The jig-jog—The flying trot—Ladies’ trotters—The canter—Ladies’ rocking horses—The gallop—Trainers 63
[CHAPTER V].
THE ROAD HACK.
His conformation—The ladies’ horse—Rotten Row—The covert hack—The hunter—For an open country—For a cramped country—‘Made hunters’—Pleasures of a pulling horse—Breaking in a colt to hounds—‘Can he leap?’—Natural jumpers—Artificial fences—Lifting horses at their fences—An incident—Water jumps—How to fall well—High-couraged versus sluggish horses—Washing horses’ legs—Mud fever—Stopping horses’ feet—Microscopic experiments—English racers in Australia and India—Paring horses’ feet—Colts shedding their teeth—Composition of bone—Two-year-old racing—Prize-fighters—Early maturity and early decay—Famous American trotters: Topgallant, Lady Blanche, Dutchman, Ajax, Flora Temple, Lady Thorn, Goldsmith Maid, Dexter, American girl—Racing now-a-days a money-making business 75
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][CHAPTER VI].
BREAKING TO HARNESS.
Double versus single harness—Four wheels versus two—Breaking to double harness—Breaking to single harness—Breaking the cart colt to harness—Blinkers—Ladies’ eyes 111
[CHAPTER VII].
THE BAROUCHE, LANDAU, AND BROUGHAM HORSE.
The Victoria, T-cart, light waggonette, or dog-cart horse—The omnibus and van horse—The cart-horse—The Lincolnshire dray-horse—The Suffolk punch—The Clydesdale—Scotch breeders 131
[1]
]CHAPTER I.
METHOD OF HALTERING A COLT.
THAT MOST IN VOGUE—A SCENE—DRIVING A COLT FROM PASTURE—GETTING HIM INTO THE STABLE—SELECTION OF HALTER—HOW TO TAME LIONS AND TIGERS—SIGNS OF TEMPER IN A COLT—HOW TO HANDLE HIM—TYING HIM UP—AN INSTANCE OF A WILD COLT.