INDEX. 



263 



Saddle Cob, 11 



Horses, 1, 22, 33—36 



or Pad, 128 



Clothes, 112 



Saddles for Hunting, 113 



for Ridinar, 111 



Safety Bars, lU 



Sand-crack, 208 



Sawdust as Litter, 100 



Scotch Ponies, 142 



Sea-sand for Stables, 102 



Searching for Horses, Hints on, 23 



Seedy Toe, 27 



, Treatment of, 214, 233 



"Secundo" Bit, 109 



Shetland Ponies, 140—142 



Sheds in Winter, 41 



Shire Horses, 16 



, Points of, 16—17 



, Pace of, 19 



, Price of, 20 



Shoulder-straps, 111 



Shoes in the Paddock, 41 



for Ice and Slippery Eoads, 



206 



Shoeing Young Horses, 174 



Shoeing Horses, 198—207 



, Injuries in, 216 



Sick Horses, Nursing, 219 — 223 



Sidebones, 217, 232 



Singeing Horses, 97 



Size of Horses in Breeding, 151 



"Slops "Disliked, 85 



Smut in Fodder, 72 



Snaffles, Various Kinds of, 109 



Sole, Injury to the, 209 



Sore Backs, 239 



Sound Horses, 150 



Spanish Ass, The, 185 



Spavin, 29 



Speedy Cutting, 33 



"Spills" orFaUs, 116 



Splints, 27 



Sportsmen and their Horses, 122 



Sprains, and their Treatment, 241 



Spurring and Punishing, 122 



Stables, and their method of Con- 

 struction, 41—44 



, Draughts in, 51, 58 



, Doors of, 57 



Stables, Dimensions of, 45 



, Floors and Paving of, 52 



, Foul Air in, 45—48 



• , Fresh Air in, 40—51 



, General Fittiags in, 58 



, Loose Boxes and Stalls, 53 



, Routine in, 107 — 108 



, Temperature of, 59 



, "Windows in, 51 



, Ventilation of, 49 



Stalls and Boxes, Floors of, 54 

 Stalls and Loose Boxes, Illustra- 

 tions of, 54 — 55 

 Stallions, Draught, 152 



, How to Preserve in Health, 



152 

 Steaming Corn, 84 

 Sterility and its Cause, 153 

 Steeple-chasing, 112 — 114 



in India, 110 



Stirrups, 114 

 Straw as Bedding, 100 

 Straw- Yards and their Use, 41 

 Suffolk Punch, Points of, 17 

 Surfeit, 251 



Surcingle, Use of, in Breaking 

 Colts, 170 



Tares as Fodder, 82 



Temper in Horses, 107 



Temperature of Stables, 59 



Tendons, Thickening of, 27 — 28 



Thoroughpins, 30 



Throat Lash, 109 



Thrush, 211 



Tired Horses, 117 



" Tooling " a Four-in-Hand, 136 



Traces in Harness, 127 — 128 



Tradesmen's Horses, 137 — 139 



, Management of, 138 



Training Young Horses, 165 



, Best Time for, 171 



Tramcar Horses, 88 



Work, 105 



Treads, 207 



Tricks of Dealers, 23—29 

 Troop Horses, 35 

 , Food of, 89 



