i6 HORSE-MASTERSHIP 



Officer's opinion, if you " be as like the 

 thoroughbred as you are able to be." It is 

 wonderful what an amount of weight an 

 apparently undemvelght thoroughbred can 

 carry all day and come in fresh, while the 

 heavy-headed, hairy -heeled, ill-bred horse 

 appears to collapse once he is asked to do 

 anything out of his usual jog-trot. 



It may interest you to know, too, that the 

 Germans, F'rench, and Italians, whose cavalry 

 are now wonderfully trained, are filling their 

 ranks more and more with the light-boned 

 thoroughbred to the exclusion of the heavier 

 type of horse. 



Now that you have fixed upon what is 

 your ideal of a horse, and we shall suppose 

 you have succeeded in finding the horse that 

 comes up to that ideal, you want to know if 

 he is sound — or, rather, I should put it, sound 

 enough for your purpose. 



I have often been asked the most silly 

 questions on this subject. People appear to 

 think that there is some mystery about 

 soundness, or the want of it, that takes a 



