CHAPTER VI 



THE AGE OF THE HORSE 



Although irregularities as to time do 

 occur in connection with the appearance 

 of the incisor or nipping teeth, these 

 exceptions are not sufficiently numerous 

 to disturb the "accepted" and uni- 

 versal system of judging a horse's age 

 by his teeth. At, or shortly after the 

 time when the foal comes into the world, 

 he has two sucking or temporary incisor 

 teeth in the centre of the upper jaw, and 

 a corresponding pair in the lower. 

 These are the centrals. 



In an interval of from six to eight 



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