LESSON X. 



THE WIND, COLOUR, HEIGHT, COAT AND HAIR, AGE. 



The term ' wind ' is used by horsemen to signify 

 the respiration or breathing capabilities. It is no 

 part of my object here to describe defects in the 

 ' wind,' and how to detect them. This is done in 

 my work entitled " Lectures on the Examination of 

 Horses as to Soundness " so that only normal or 

 healthy breathing, or ' wind,' will here be described. 



When a healthy horse of average size is standing 

 quietly in his stable, he breathes from eight to ten 

 or twelve times a minute. I here use the term 

 breathes in its popular sense, which all, I believe, 

 understand. If the back of the hand and fingers 

 be placed against the ribs, just behind the elbow, 

 the heart will be felt to knock the side in beating 

 about four times the breathing rate, so that a healthy 

 horse having a pulse of thirty-six per minute will 



