BREEDliVG. 3o3 



It sometimes happens that great irritation and inflamma- 

 tion take place in nicking, and even locked-jaw has been 

 broiiqht on by it. When tlie first of these ensue, the 

 weight must be removed from the tail, and the parts care- 

 fully fomented with warm water, and gentle purgatives 

 administered. AVhen locked-jaAV has taken place, the joints 

 of the tail should be amputated at the first joint above the 

 highest nick. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



OF BREEDING, FEEDING, AND TRAINING HORSES. 



SECTION I.— BREEDING. 



The utmost attention should be paid in the selection of 

 brood-mares, because the progeny depends more upon the 

 dam than the horse, and the size and strength of the foal 

 will bear a considerable similitude to hers. As a proof of 

 this, wc have found that those horses that have been the 

 produce of an Arabian stallion and a mare, if she were 

 large and well-formed, have not resembled the horse in their 

 stature. Up to the year 1829, only one Arabian horse 

 had been brought to Scotland, which was in the reign of 

 Alexander I., who, in the year 1131, presented to the 

 Church of St. AndrcAv's an Arabian horse, furnished with 

 costly trappings ; this is the first that was brought to Great 

 Britain. In 1829, my late friend Capt. Horne, of the 

 ]\ladras Artillery, introduced a beautiful silver-grey horse, 

 called the Humdanieh Arabian. His height was fourteen 

 hands and a half — a size which the Edinburgh breeders 



