Identifier: horseitsvarietie00arma (find matches)
Title: The horse : its varieties and management in health and disease
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Armatage, George Ballantyne, Hanson and Co Frederick Warne (Firm)
Subjects: Horses Horses Veterinary medicine Horsemanship Horse breeds
Publisher: London : Frederick Warne and Co. and New York
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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the worst legsand feet, chiefly owing to the extra weight they and theirancestors also have had to carry. Crib-biting is some-times a habit acquired from idleness, as also is wind-sucking ■ but if not caused by indigestion, it often leadsto it, and is very commonly caught by the offspring. Itis true that it may be prevented by a strap ; but it is nota desirable accomplishment in the mare, though of lessimportance than those to which I have already alluded, ifnot accompanied by absolute loss of health, as indicatedby emaciation or the state of the skin. Lastly, the temper is of the utmost importance, bywhich must be understood not that gentleness at grasswhich may lead the breeders family to pet the mare, butsuch a temper as will serve for the purposes of her rider,and will answer to the stimulus of the voice, whip, or spur.A craven or a rogue is not to be thought of as the mother of a family f and if a mare belongs to a breedwhich is remarkable for refusing to answer the call of the
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Breeding. 97 rider, she should be consigned to any task rather than thestud farm. Neither should a mare be used for this purposewhich had been too irritable to train, unless she happenedto be an exceptional case; but if of an irritable family,she would be worse even than a roarer or a blind one.These are defects which are apparent in the colt or filly,but the irritability which interferes with training oftenleads to the expenditure of large sums on the faith ofprivate trials, which are lost from the failure in public,owing to this defect of nervous system. Choice of Stallion. Like the brood mare, the stallion requires several es-sentials—commencing also like her, first, with his blood ;secondly, his individual shape ; thirdly, his health; andfourthly, his temper. But there is this difficulty in select-ing the stallion, that he must not only be suitable perse, but he must also be adapted to the particular marewhich he is to serve. Thus, it will be manifest thatthe task is more diffic

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