284 HUMANE HORSE-TRAINING 



properly except (excuse my mentioning it) myself in 

 my drawing when I was a boy, and for which my drawing- 

 masters corrected (?) me. 



" The best artist by far for a trotting horse was Maurer, 

 who drew the coloured prints of ' Mac/ ' Tacony/ 

 'Hero/ 'Flora Temple/ etc., and the many trotting- 

 horse groups: one, called ' The Road Hog/ of a farm 

 cart blocking the road, of some men having a brush 

 on the road/' 



"The best modern artist of a trotter is Dickey, who 

 draws for the Horse Review of Chicago. 



" No artist makes the men sit their horses like the 

 French artists who have been in the cavalry. Most 

 artists sit a man who has never ridden on a live horse 

 on a wooden dummy and copy him, and as they have 

 never handled a horse themselves you can imagine the 

 result. 



" Herring (the elder) put any amount of quality into 

 a horse ; in fact, he, when he painted a cart-horse, made 

 him look like a magnificent thoroughbred. He painted 

 the shine on a horse's coat better than anyone has ever 

 succeeded in doing. I spent years in trying to paint 

 a coat like he did, and his horses, in spite of a little 

 exaggeration in smallness of head, small hoofs, etc., 

 are the best horses ever painted, but he was entirely 



