WHIP— WILD HORSES 



Whip. — Everybody knows what a whip is, but very few 

 realise the immense amount of harm that a reckless abuse 

 of it may cause. It is impossible to walk down a street 

 without seeing some driver using his whip unnecessarily, 

 not brutally, perhaps, but still with quite sufficient an amount 

 of energy to cause pain to the horse, and to unsettle him. 

 In fact, some animals do far better without any whip at all, 

 and no good coachmen so far forget themselves as to thrash 

 a horse undeservedly. A man who does so should at once 

 be discharged, for if he punishes an animal in public, he is 

 likely to ill-use it in the stable. Consequently, if a servant 

 is heard to allude to a horse being driven on the " whip 

 hand " instead of the off side, it may be worth his owner's 

 while to watch him carefully. 



Whip Hand. — A slang term used to signify the off side 

 horse of a pair. The derivation of the expression is as 

 obvious as it is significant. (See Whip.) 



Whistling, like roaring, is incurable and hereditary, 

 its source being due to a thickening of the membrane 

 of the trachea from the effects of natural predisposition, 

 cold, tight bearing-reins, or similar causes. In sound it 

 is shriller than roaring, and is to be heard whilst a 

 horse breathes out as well as when he draws in his breath, 

 though not to the same extent. (See Broken Wind, Grunting, 

 Roaring.) 



White Feet and Legs. — Most people object very 

 strongly to the above, and a general impression exists that 

 the horn of white hoofs is not so durable as the dark colour, 

 which unquestionably looks far better in a gentleman's 

 horse. (See Colours.) 



Wild Horses. — See Prejevalsky's Horse and Evolution 

 of the Horse. 



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