rARK TEAM — PASTURE 



markings, are too gay in appearance for park work. About 

 1 5 hands 3 inches is the correct height, but a weight-carrying 

 cob of 1 5 hands is quite allowable. (See Ladfs Horse?) 



Park Team. — As may be supposed, more quality is 

 required in a park than a road team, and a great deal more 

 attention is paid to the matter of appointments. Nor are 

 conspicuous colours and gaudy markings favoured in a park 

 team, but style, manners, and action are subjects of the 

 greatest importance. Hence the predilection in favour of 

 hackney blood which is displayed by some owners of very 

 attractive teams, but as bay is the most favoured colour, it 

 is not an easy matter to procure well - matched wheelers 

 standing 16 hands and leaders an inch less at shoulder. 

 Yorkshire coach-horses are favoured by many driving men, 

 and a few support Cleveland bays, but the latter are a little 

 heavy, and in instances plain, for this particular class of work. 

 (See Appointments, Coach, Road Tca?n.) 



Parsnips are well liked by horses and form a good change 

 of food, especially when mixed with corn and bran in the 

 case of the heavy breeds. If given cooked they should not 

 be overboiled. (See Feeding.) 



Pastern. — The part of the leg which lies between the 

 fetlock and the hoof ; it consists of two bones, the long and 

 the short, which act in conjunction with the navicular bone. 

 (See Fore-legs?) 



Pasture. — The expressions " pasture," " paddock," and 

 " meadow " mean pretty much the same thing, though the 

 term paddock has come by use to be applied more generally 

 to small enclosures. In each case a supply of good water is 

 a matter of necessity, and the grass should be both plentiful 

 and of good quality. It is a bad plan to keep light horses 

 on wet land, as this influences the quality of their bone, but 

 the heavy breeds, the bone of which is not so fine and hard 



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