A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement : in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet ... / by William Osmer.

Date:
1830
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    that ‘ they go near the ground,’ and, therefore, are * apt to blunder.’ Thirdly—that they are ‘ long pas- terned,’ and so have ‘ an awkward way of going' To the first I answer, that if any man he willing to match a horse, which he will certify to be half-bred, against another certified to be thorough bred, I will undertake to find him a play-fellow, and will enter- tain him for what sura he pleases, and the owner of the half-bred horse shall choose his ground, length, and weight. But the man who never saw Bay Bol- ton, Atlas, Tartar, and many others that might be named, may perhaps think, there are no bred horses of strength and size, and substance, suffici- ent to struggle with deep roads, and heavy weights. [A misapprehension that the practice of breeders in the reign of George IV. will teach him to amend ; his Majesty’s opinion on this point, which is no mean one, leans to the side of a proper quan- tity of bone and height, which gives the racer an advantage at every stroke or stretch; besides, if the services of high-bred produce is designed for the draft, it cannot be too large, if not surpassing big, as Filho da Puta, Elephant, Grenadier. A strong roomy and healthy country mare, covered by a tho- rough-bred horse, with vigour in him, always throws a large foal; but she must be healthy, be well kept, though not pampered, and allowed compara- tive rest, when towards the ninth or tenth month her back bone bends with the load within, and her blearing eyes tell us she can carry no external bur- then without distress.]