The horse : how to buy and sell, giving the points which distinguish a sound from an unsound horse by Howden Peter

Author:Howden, Peter
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses
Publisher: New York : Orange Judd Co.
Published: 1902-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

play, or Avliatevcr trick tends to the injury of themselves or others, is a Vice.

In the first or most serious class of vices may be enumerated—kicking and biting in or out of the stable; kicking at the leg of the rider or driver, either when mounting into the saddle or at any other time; or rearing, or running away, or rubbing the rider's leg against anything, or lying down when Avanted to proceed, or falling on the side, or stopping suddenly when in a fast pace, or violently insisting upon going to any i)lace that the horse hap^iens to have been at before. Jibbing, or refusing to proceed, is a vice: so is backing against the owner's will, or turning round with violence when not re(|uired so to do, unless this results from mismanagement of the user. A refusal to stand still in order to be mounted, if from ill nature, may be classed under this head. Bucking or raising the back when mounted, and then putting the head between the fore-legs and jumping, is a disagreeable and dangerous vice; so is the trick of swelling out the body till either the girths or straps to which they are buckled give way. If horses are guilty of any of the vices here enumerated and have been sold as well-broken horses, warranted free from vice, they are returnable. The half-broken colt may be guilty of some of these habits without being vicious; but thenceforth it depends upon the way of procedure.

This being merely a catalogue of vices, some of them will be more particularly described under their respective headings, together with their causes, effects, and remedies, in order that buyers may know where certain vices are barred, or whether they amount to a reason for the total rejection of the horse or not.

Should you, however, put a horse into harness without having a guarantee that he is quiet to drive, and he then proves guilty of one or more of the active vices, you cannot return him.

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