INDEX 



399 



North America, horses indigenous to, 



33. 

 Number and value of horses, Appendix 



IV.. 388-392. 



Oriental blood introduced, 158. 



breeds, 61. See, also, Arabian horse. 

 Over-draw checks, 285. 



Pacers, 72; Narragansett, 37; as a 



driver, 84; breeding discussed, 82. 

 compared with trotters, 84. 

 discussed, 78. 

 pure-gaited, 80. 

 time of, 80. 

 Pacing horses, 78. 

 Paddocks and fields, 346. 

 Palo Alto, 74. 



Parturition, approach and signs of, 219. 

 Patterson, John, 141. 

 Pedigrees, Alphea Czar, 55. 

 Angus Ladd, 54. 

 begun 1829, 67. 

 how based, 50. 



knowledge of, stimulates, 59. 

 reliance on, 60. 

 short and long, 52, 54. 

 Percheron horse, 31; mare, Fig. of, 163; 

 Normans, 161; Stallion, Fig. of, 160; 

 stallion, Fig. of, 164; stallion, Fig. 

 of, 166; studbook, 161; weight of, 

 166. 



Percherons changed, old to new, 158; 

 color of, 165; conformation, 165; 

 description of, 162; early impor- 

 tations, 159. 



Photographing animals, 148. 

 Plow, invention of, 13. 

 Plymouth Rocks, how bred, 59. 

 Pointer, Fig. of, 238. 

 Ponies, 122; child's horse, 127; African, 

 122; breeding, 136; Bressay, Fig. of, 

 127; color of, 133; Corsica, 122; 

 Creole, 135; Dartmoor family, 130; 

 demand for, 125; Exmoors family, 

 130; Exile, Fig. of, 126; foundation 

 stock, 138; gaited broncho. Fig. of, 

 134; Fig. of, 123; Fig. of two, 124; 



Indian, 135; Julius Caesar, Fig. of, 

 132; Mexican, 123; mustangs, 133; 

 new forest family, 130; polo-pony 

 breeding, 137; Shetlands, 125; size 

 of, 124, 128; subject to asthma, 128; 

 Titor- Welch, Fig of, 129; useful, 

 128 ; Welsh pony, Fig. of, 131; 

 Welsh breeding, 130. 



Pony, 3; from Europe, 37; Indian 

 mustang, 37. 



Potency and prepotency, 186. 



Prince Alert, 80; Fig. of, 81. 



Progress by selection, 194. 



Pullers, how cured, 285. 



Punishing the horse, 289. 



Quartette of Clydesdales, Fig. of, 142. 

 Quilters, Sir W. Cuthbert, 154. 



Race-course, 1 ; established, 62. 



established, United States, 66. 

 Race-horses kep 4 by statesmen, 66. 

 Races, number of, 68. 

 Racing, 72. 



forbidden by Cromwell, 27. 

 Records of trotters, 73. 

 Registration, how governed, 51. 

 Registry of live-stock, 381-387. 

 Rein, cruel use of, 286. 

 Rei singer, Roe, 61. 

 Richard II., 64. 

 Roadster, 3. 

 Roman conquest, 61. 



horse, 62. 

 Rules for shoeing, 332. 



Saddler, American, 86, 87, 94; associa- 

 tion, 89; at rest, Fig. 4, 45; at rest, 

 Fig. of, 332; at World's Fair, 90; 

 breeding, 88; color of, 90; cut of, 

 Fig. 13, 92; description of, 90; for 

 park riding, 91; foundation of, 87; 

 gaits of, 89; Kentucky, 87; move- 

 ment of feet, 93; Northern, 91; 

 noted, 88; not popular in New 

 York, 94; Roman, 86; running walk, 

 83; size of, 90; Southern, 91; South 

 United States, 86. 



