Identifier: conditionofhunte00nimr (find matches)
Title: The condition of hunters : their choice and management
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Nimrod Barton, Frank Townend, b. 1869
Subjects: Horses Fox hunting
Publisher: London New York : John Lane
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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grooms to be the best method of treatinga horse when in the stable. Whoever has noticedan experienced nurse handling a young infant mustobserve a peculiar method of touching it which nothingbut practice can give her. Thus it is with a groom.There is a method of handling a horse peculiar to onewho knows his business, which a bystander, who isa judge of such matters, cannot mistake. Even inthe act of stripping him—before he puts his handupon him to dress him—there is a method to beobserved. Having secured his head and muzzledhim, he first unbuckles his roller and the near sideof his breast-plate ; when passing his left hand downthe spine of the horse, he draws the clothes off, overhis tail, and throws them into one side of the manger.By this method every hair in his skin will lie smoothly.When his clothes are replaced, having been wellshaken, they should be put some inches forwarderthan they are intended to remain ; when the groom,going just behind the tail of his horse, should draw
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TREATMENT AFTER A HARD RUN 193 them gently down to their proper place, for the reasonbefore mentioned. The roller and breast-plate beingbuckled, a hood, or a linen rubber, should be thrownover the quarters. Nothing looks so awkward as tosee a groom pulling a horses clothes in an oppositedirection to his coat, which must be the case if heputs them on lower down, or nearer to the tail, thanhe intends them to remain. In general the head andneck are dressed before the body is stripped, for whichpurpose the horse should be turned round in his stall;and when his legs are rubbed, first with straw and thenwith the hand, the toilette is completed. When a groom who knows his business has strippeda horse, he should feel him, to judge how he is gettingon in his condition, and whether he be getting hisflesh on the right points. Having satisfied himselfon this head—having stripped himself (that is to sayif he be a working groom)—he sets to work to dresshim—an operation in which some greatly e

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