The lloESE Industry in New York S 



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of brain, quality also should be looked for. There are big bass- 

 wood-headed horses, and there are small hickory-headed horses. 

 Quantity must not be confounded with quality. Some brainy 

 horses have from past bad management had their nerves shattered, 

 so to speak, and what brains they have are a damage to them. On 

 this point a study of physiognomy is a help. 



Ti'ere are many rattle-headed, nervous, high-strung horses that 

 make good jumpers, but not every good fencer is, by that same 

 token, a good hunter. Almost anything in the shape of a horse 

 can pull a harrow or go in harness, but for cross-country work 

 a horse must possess the very highest qualities and the sum total 

 of all the virtues of the equine race. He should possess the 

 courage that stops just short of recklessness, great nervous force 

 with coolness, great energy with judgment, light-heartedness with- 

 out foolishness, staying qualities of the best, good breeding, perfect 

 manners. These are the qualifications of a high-class cross- 

 coimtry horse. These are also the qualifications of a high-class 

 cross-country rider. If they are to be omitted from either, the 

 horse should not be made the one to suffer, for he has to look out 

 for himself and the rider as well. Besides all this, the horse must 

 have suitable conformation for the work, be a good feeder, and 

 sound. 



RIDER SHOULD FIT THE HORSE 



One can hardly hope to find so many qualifications in a single 

 animal, but if a horse that approaches this standard is found, for- 

 give his shortcomings and be consoled with the reflection that if 

 he is not as good as he should be, he might have been worse. 

 Eemember this, too, that it is the part of horsemanship to fit the 

 rider to the horse rather than to try to make the horse fit the 

 rider. The gTeatest and best thing of all is to find in a horse an 

 agreeable companion. A man will get on better with an old farm 

 horse that fits him than with a two-thousand-dollar qualified 

 hunter that does not. 



ADAPTABILITY TO HUNTING 



I have heard some men declare that no horse likes hunting. I 

 am positive this is a mistake. No horse would like huntino- with 

 some men, but most horses with the proper conformatio'n for 

 saddle work do enjoy hunting when they are properly ridden. I 



