How to Break, Ride and Drive a Horse

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Excerpt from How to Break, Ride and Drive a Horse: Containing a Complete Treatise on the Horse, Describing the Most Useful Horses for Business, and the Best Horses for the Road, Also Giving Instructions in Breaking, Riding and Driving HorsesEastern blood is a great advantage in most respects. And no doubt when the animal possessing it is sound, he will bear the shocks of the road with impunity, but there is no ques tion in my mind that he fails in the matter of enduring daily concussion on the road, and that a Welsh pony or Norman horse will stand nearly twice the amount of road-work with out showing its - effects. This is the weak point in the breed, partly arising from original want of size in the bone and joints, but chie¿y, I imagine, from the constant use of stal lions for inferior stock, which have themselves suffered from inflammation of the legs and its consequences, hence, in process of time, a breed of horses is formed which is more than naturally delicate about the legs, because they have really been selected from that defect, though only from neces sity, and not from choice.My reason for thinking that the Arab blood is not usees sarily inclined to produce inflammatory joints is, that in their native country they are peculiarly free from them, although used for long distances, and that in this country those which are bred from modern Arabs are sound in their limbs, though otherwise unfit for the purpose for which they were bred. Safeguard, who is descended from the Wellesley Grey Ara bian, has got most of his stock with particularly wiry legs, and I have had one of them which would stand any amount of battering without mischief, besides knowing others of the same character in other hands.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.