122 WARRANTY OF 



1. That aged horses very rarely fulfil the conditions 

 of warranty of unworked horses. 



2. That, notwithstanding such defects, they are 

 generally well qualified to do work required by the 

 nervous, the timid, the elderly, and the indifferent 

 horseman, as well as by those who, constantly requiring 

 a great amount of work done at once, have yet no time 

 to spare in carefully handling, or in regularly exercising 

 their horses. 



There certainly exists a senseless prejudice against 

 buying such old horses ; yet, every real horseman well 

 knows the luxury of using a fine, active old horse, 

 which cannot even be forced into doing wrong the 

 case with every horse that has, for a considerable time, 

 been ridden by a true horseman. 



You must let him, for the most part, judge for 

 himself; and you then find that that judgment is 

 right. Gay and light in his step, he is conscious of 

 his prowess, and in the field he measures his leaps to 

 a beautiful nicety, " refusing " only such as are really 

 too much for him. 



Not less valuable is the old hackney, while the old 

 harness horse knowingly measures the width of his 

 wheels, and, on all occasions, takes his proper side 

 of the road. 



Well-seasoned old horses are less liable to disease 

 than young ones, and do not tire so soon. 



