CONTENTS. XI 



great number of unquiet horses. Late fatal accident to a well 

 known dealer. Runaways, biters, and kickers. List of defects 

 in horses. Commentary on this list. Hereditary and constitu- 

 tional blindness. Waif eyes. Ceremony of inspection. Fig- 

 giug — bar ginger for ware horse ! Kicking, comparison between 

 the horse and the cow. Examinations previous to purchase. 

 Anecdote of an adept at showing a horse. Barbarous stable 

 discipline of some dealers, and at the repositories, perhaps more 

 prevalent than ever. The show of the horse out of doors. Ex- 

 quisite barbarity ! The second hand horse. The eyes and ears 

 of the horse, in ditferent modes, indicate both vice and good 

 nature. The naturally vicious, however temporarily subdued 

 never to be depended upon ; the naturally kind and tractable, 

 ever, p. 123 — 137. 



SECTION* XXII. p. 137. 



The above examinations not to be final. The intuitive subtilty of 

 the restiff horse. Riding and trying the nag previous to pur- 

 chase. High qualification of a horse going well down hill. 

 Defect of the need of martingale or crupper. Shying from 

 defect of sight in horses, and unavoidably making a false step 

 on a slippery pavement, how treated by brutal human idiots. 

 Signs of soundness of the wind to be correctly judged of by the 

 motion of the flanks. Sound, but thick winded horses. The 

 customary method of coughing the horse often injurious. Roar- 

 ing, how discovered. Crib biting. Hacks of high qualifica- 

 tion. Masters of high weights described. Fast trotters. The 

 author's plan, of setting up racing weights in trotting matches, 

 succeeded after twenty years' solicitation. Robson's Phenomena. 

 The true trot. The running trotter. Amblers and natural pad- 

 ders. Speed of trotter for one mile. An hour's performance. 

 Two hours'. The American trotters. Prices, p. 137 — 144. 



SECTION XXIII. p. 144. 



Ladies' Horses. The true lady's pad described. The canter. 

 Carriage Horses. Their varieties described. The enormous 

 destruction of horses, in consequence of our travelling rate 

 during the last forty years upwards, whence the scarcity and 

 high price of fresh and sound ones. Grey, in the coach horse, 

 the most expensive colour. Dealers. The cheapest marts for 

 second hand coach horses. As to matching. The attachment 

 of pairs of horses one to the other. Horses for single harness. 

 The old gig mares. Aldridge,- late of St. Martin's Lane. 

 Ponies for draught. The perpetual recurrence of accidents — 

 the causes. Country marts for horses. London, the universal 

 market for all descriptions. Speculations. Repositories — 

 Beavor, about 1740, the original introductor — succeeded by 

 Aldridge, father of the present Mr. Aldridge, whose successor is 

 Mr. Morris. Tattersall's Repository, Hyde Park Corner, opened 



