CERTIFICATE OF DESCRIPTION. 821 



scription is either complete or incomplete, detailed or summary. The 

 horse alone which is described may be simple or complicated in his 

 characters, and then the certificate will be more or less complete 

 according as it is detailed or summary. It is not possible to be brief 

 and at the same time complete in describing a thing which is compli- 

 cated. It is proper to be relatively concise, and it is always well to 

 pass upon the value or the worthlessness of certain observable facts. 

 It is evident that if we propose to give simply the data of a clinical 

 observation of a given horse, the enumeration of his registration num- 

 ber, his name, the peculiarities of his coat, etc., will be of no interest 

 in the case. If, on the contrary, it refers to an animal concerning which 

 there is some difference, for example, we should note all the facts with- 

 out fear of making it too detailed. 



Examples of Military Certificates. 



a. "No. 1212. Jupiter, gelding, four years ; 1.60 m. ; cherry bay, snow-flaky 

 upon the croup ; head crescent to the right ; mule stripe ; three white feet, of 

 which one, the anterior left, is bordered and trout-spotted." (Vallon.) 



b. " No. 15. Cornelius, stallion, four years ; 1.40 m. ; golden sorrel ; pos- 

 terior stockings, dentated and ermined around coronet." (Merche.) 



c. "243. Alcide, gelding, six years ; 1.54m.; golden sorrel; head mixed; 

 list bordered upon forehead, terminating in leprous spot between the nostrils and 

 the lips ; lateral right white feet, the posterior small. Bought at Angers, January 

 3, 1873, 600 francs. Traced. Trace, of blisters on the thighs." (Commission 

 d'hygiene hippique.) 



d. " Regulus. Barb horse, entire ; foaled at the stud of B6ne (Alelick) in 

 1846 ; height 1.49 m. with standard ; light gray, much trout-spotted, especially 

 upon the cheeks and around the eyes ; black moustaches ; traces of actual cautery 

 in points on a spavin of left hock and string-halt on same side ; sold as a stallion, 

 1500 francs, April 1, 1852." (Merche.) 



The last example is given as a model for a detailed certificate. 



Examples of Certificates for Breeding Establishments. 

 As we have said, we add, on the stock-farm, the pedigree, the perform- 

 ances, and the get of such or such a stallion, also the place and date of 

 birth. 



a. "Thoroughbred colt, by Royal Oak and Carisandre, foaled March 8, 

 1847, and entered in the French Stud-Book under the name Fianetta ; coat light 

 bay, bordered list prolonged to the extremity of the nose ; trace of white foot 

 posterior right, ermined ; high stocking anterior right, bordered and irregular." 

 (Richard, du Cantal.) 



b. " Thoroughbred broodmare, entered in the French Stud- Book under the 

 name Josephine; by Napoleon and Agar; foaled in 1840. Height 1.66 m. 

 Btirnt sorrel, rubican upon the croup and the base of the tail ; traces of white 

 feet left diagonal biped ; blaze prolonged by a small list, bordered upon the fore- 

 head ; grayish upon the right cheek." (Richard, du Cantal.) 



