Training and horse management in India, with Hindustanee vocabulary by Hayes M. Horace (Matthew Horace) 1842-1904

Author:Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses, Horses, Horses
Publisher: London ; New York : Longmans, Green
Published: 1905-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

lest the measuring authorities might reject the animal on the score of its being too sick. The able practitioner will, from previous experience, accurately determine the extreme point to which he can go in playing his game with the members of the measuring committee.

As animals at sea get but little sleep, and usually have to stand all the time they are on board, it is often advisable, especially if they have suffered much in condition from the passage, to bring up for measurement ponies that have just been landed from a long voyage.

Some ponies measure lower when their head is held up than when the poll is kept on a level with the withers. As the owner or his representative is usually allowed to hold the pony's head, and he will generally be allowed to use his own discretion in keeping it up or down, so long as the poll is not brought below the level of the withers. The measuring authorities, as a rule, will take under their own direction the placing of the animal's legs. It is almost needless to say that if the limbs are stretched out of the perpendicular, or if the fore feet are unduly separated from each other in a lateral direction, the pony will measure lower than he would do were his position more in accordance with the rules for measuring.

Lowering the heels, within certain limits, will, by increasing the obliquity of the pasterns, decrease the height more than reducing the toes to the same extent. If, however, the heels are so much pared down that the animal cannot stand firmly on them, the rasping or cutting will, as a rule, produce the undesirable effect of making the pony add to his height by causing him to bring his pasterns more upright than usual, with the

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