Light Horses Breeds And Management

Mules ... . ... . . . ... 153 CHAPTER X.-Management of Light Horses ... . . ... 159 CHAPTER XI.-Diseases and Injuries to which Light Horses are Liable 188 I L L U S T R A T I O N Thoroughbred Horse. Orme .. ... ... Thoroughbred Mare. Plaisanterie ... ... ... Thoroughbred Stallions. King Herod and Flying Childers Thoroughbred Stallion. Ruddigore ... ... Hackney Stallion. Danegelt .. D ..-. . Hackney Stallion. M . P .... . L ... ... Hackney Stallion. General Gordon ... ... Hack eyM are. Lady Wilton .-... l ... Hackney Mares ... ... ... ... Cleveland Bay Stallion. Master Frederick ... ... Cleveland Bay Stallion. Sultan . . ... ... Yorkshire Coaching Stallion. Prince of Wales ... Arabian Stallion. Kahalet ... ... ... Anglo. Arabian. Khaled ... ... ... ... Arabian Stallion. Speed of Thought ... ... Thoroughbred Stallion Mambrino ... ... ... American Trotter ... ... ... ... Group of Hunters ... ... ... ... Hunter Mare ... 8 - 0 ... ... ... Hunter ... ... ... ... ... Hunter Sire ... ... ... ... ... Hack Hunter ... ... ... ... ... Carriage Horses ... ... ... ... Tandem Team ... ... .. .. . ... Pony Mares ... ... ... ... . . Pony Stallion. Sir George ... ... ... ShetlandPony. GoodFriday ... ... ... Welsh Pony. Tommy ... . . ... ... ... To Face 9 9 9 9 ..... ..... 0- .. - 99 - .. 9 9 . . . . . 0.. 9 9 ..... a .. . . . . . 0 . 0 .. 9 9 .. - .. ..... ..... . . . . . ..... 9 9 . . . . . . - .. ..... 0.. 99 ..... T. 1GH. T HORSES, I BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. CHAPTER I. THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE. IT is by no means easy to frame a succinct definition of the thoroughbred horse. We know that no horse is accepted as thoroughbred unless he appears duly registered in the Stud Book, and SO, to save trouble, we may take this as the criterion. The blood horse, however, like the fox-hound, is after all an animal of composite breed that is to say, time was when he did not exist and no horse presenting the features of the modern English thoroughbred was, at one period, to be found in England. To show this conclusively, would be to write in detail the history of the English horse-an unnecessary task, inasmuch as this subject has already been fully dealt with in many books. It will, therefore, be sufficient for our present purpose, if we take the time of King Charles 11. as an important landmark, and briefly trace the history of the English horse up to that reign, before entering into any sort of disquisition upon what we now call the thoroughbred horse. We need spend no time in enquiring what sort of horses they were which so excited the admiration of Julius Czsar 1 2 LIGHT HORSES BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. but they were good enough to induce the Conqueror to take a good many away with him... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.