The horse in all his varieties and uses; his breeding, rearing and management whether with rules ... for his preservation from disease / By John Lawrence.

  • Lawrence, John, 1753-1839.
Date:
1829
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Credit: The horse in all his varieties and uses; his breeding, rearing and management whether with rules ... for his preservation from disease / By John Lawrence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To make ,the horse a steady, prompt, and safe fencer... Hold hard!—when the jump probable to reach the other world. , The old WILD GOOSE CHASE, and modern STEEPLE HUNT. |More mettle than wit, and q. s..of cruelty in these heroic feats.,.Did Nimrod ever ride to a steeple? Welch creeping, p. 237—249. SECTION XXXVI. p. 249. Sian@of the Fieitp.. Cockney introductions. Examples of various attempts at an overstrained refinement of language. .Dr.Cursham and, his, female dog... The Sporting Magazine the text book for slang... History of that popular periodical; at first not received by the Sporting world—with most difficulty by the field. ,,Advent and. success of the celebrated Nimrod. | Controversy..ou,sam- -mering the hunter... Early examples of this, controversy. ‘Phe summer stabling practice first introduced by continental, mare- chales and grooms. . Quotation from Michaell Baret—from Beck - ford—from a former book ef the author. Reference.to. the Lords Derby and Petre—Mr. Farquharson and Mr. Maberly.,, A-fanious ran. of Mr. Farquharson’s hounds. Trae spring and-summer;ma- nagement of the hunter. The rationale as to hard meat... General and most prevalent opinion on summering... Accidents, at grass, how avoided. Home, or near pasture, a great convenience. Letter from the broprieian o of a celebrated pack of fox hounds, p. 241—951. SECTION XXXVII. p. 251. Training the hunter. As to sweating. Feeding to be regulated by appetite and digestion. The muzzle, its supposed use in the old school—shoes of advantage. Quotation from Nimrod. Dan- ger of making too free with good flesh, and of feeding beyond the digestive powers of the horse. Strong work and sweating the day before the hunt, a rash and needless anticipation of labour. An unsound hunter a dangerous shift. No parallel to be drawn between the continent, or India, and this country, with respect to summering the hunter. As to the grass proper for hunters, Artificial grasses. Use of carrots in early spring. General stable routine. The hunter not to be denied water, on going out, nor to be too empty. Ill effects of the old discipline of lengthened starvation. Treatment of the hunter after a hard day’s work, p. 251—256. SECTION XXXVIII. p. 256. From steeple hunting to riding horses to death in ‘the. eter]! ‘A hero to the ndekers: Risk of neck- breaking by way of 'a lark. Danger of broken ground. Material difference in the case’ be- tween a horse failing in the field through his own and his ‘rider’s enthasiasm, and his being driven to death by the force ‘of Whip and spur. The latter a strange spectacle to be coupled with