THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 



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ties. The horse can't g-et his wind in the heat of a terrific 

 struggle without big, wide, sensitive nostrils. The big- 

 heart to pump the air in and the big lungs to hold it— for it 

 is a question how much of a supply of '^ wind " the animal 

 must keep on hand during a race and how far nature permits 

 him to renew it — are of no avail without the wide nostrils to 

 gather it. 



The next head tlxat greets him with a whinny, a bright 

 eye and a docile face is turned half sideways, as in Fig\ 159. 



Fig. 159— Great Breadth of Jaw. 



The breadth of the jaw L iVis shoAvn to be great. The 



equine reader knows that he has strength and perhaps 

 speed there. So he pursues his investigations, and at the 

 close of the jaunt through this stable he ma3^have mentalh^ 

 decided that three horses out of tlie ten are probably 

 safe to bet on. 



But there are a great many horsemen who deny that ac- 

 curate judgments can be formed in this way. Whether 

 judgments so formed are safe to tie to, especially to tie 

 money to, is a new and an interesting" question- Should the 



