INDEX. 



69 



Food, quality of, 55 

 Quantity of, 7 

 Foot in stirrup, placing, 39 

 Fore legs, examining the, 2 

 Fractures, 17 

 Frog, examining the, 3 



G. 



Gag-bits, 49 

 Galls, 17 

 Girths, 46 



Cleaning, 49 



Of webbing, 49 



Eaw-hide, 49 

 Gnawing the halter, 12 

 Green meat, 8 



H. 



Halter, gnawing the, 12 

 Handling, delicate, when riding to 



hounds,*39 

 Hands, manipulation of, 38 

 " Hard funker," the, 41 

 Harness and saddlery, 47 



Horses, bad faults in, 4 



Horses, feeling the mouths of, 

 when buying, 5 



Importance of testing con- 

 stantly, 52 

 Haste in driving, ill effects of, 33 

 Hay, 7 

 Head collar, slipping the, 12 



Holding the, 32 

 Heat, effect on horses of, 34 

 Heels cracked, 27 



Examining the, 3 

 Hereditary defects, 63 

 Hip joint, strains of the, 16 

 Horse-dealing a temptation to 



roguery, 1 

 Hounds, practice with, 43 



Riding to, 43 

 Hunters, feeding, 56 

 Hurry at starting condemned, 32, 

 33 



I. 



Indecision when riding, evil of, 41 



Individual mouths, 39 

 Inflammation of the bladder, 26 

 In the field, 38 



Jem Hills and the Undergrads, 



40 

 Jibbing, 34 

 Journey, treatment of horse on, 



34 

 Jump, action for taking a, 45 



Training horses to, 42 

 Jumping, trying intended purchase 



in, 4 



K. 



), a week's, 55 

 Kickers in harness, 33 

 Kicking, 11 



In saddle, 36 

 Strap, fixing the, 33 

 The staU, 12 

 Kindness the royal road to success 

 in training young horses, 

 62 

 Knee-rolls v. plain flap saddles, 48 

 Knees, broken, 13 

 Knightley, Sir Charles, patience 

 and kindness of, 43 



Ladies' saddles, 50 



" Lady's bridle," the, 50 



Modern bridle, 51 

 Lameness, 18 

 Lampas, 22 

 Leaping, throwing up the right 



hand in air when, 44 

 Legs, examining the, 3 



Swelled, 29 

 Lice in the tail, 28 

 Linseed, 56 

 Litter, 11 



Eating the, 1 1 



Moss, 57 

 Loin-cloths, 52 

 Loose boxes v. stalls, 7 

 Lying down, 35 



