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switch. Break carriage for the coach horse. As to matches with 

 coach horses. Saddle horse furniture. Crupper and saddle cloth 

 nearly obsolete. Martingale. The sash or breastplate introduced 

 by Sir John Lade. The jackboot stirrup & laFrancaise. Bridles, 

 the ancient snaffle and double reigned curb. Variety of bits, or 

 instruments of torture. The snaffle-bridle horse. The check 

 cord. Mild bits most profitable. The curb with a single rein, 

 severe and unfavourable. General riding, or jockey system of 

 England, little in accordance with the riding school practice — 

 use of the latter, p. 36 — 42. 



SECTION VIII. p. 42. 



Shoeing. Heavy shoes of former days. Improved about seventy 

 years since, by Lord Pembroke, Osmer, Bartlet, Snape, and 

 Clarke of Edinburgh. Our national Veterinary College, the idea 

 originating with the late Lord Grosvenor. Professor Charles 

 Vial de Saintbel. His character — of his successors. Notorious 

 infallibility of every writer's favourite form of shoe. Modern 

 novelties in shoeing, and the veterinary art, several centuries old. 

 Ccesar Fiaschi's discoveries and practice. The terrible buttress 

 should never come near a weak foot, perhaps any foot, the paring 

 knife being the proper instrument. The toe may be generally 

 made most free with. The good and tough hoof. Shoeing the 

 horse, a necessary evil. Error of the late Mr. AVhite. The foot 

 of the horse described. The once celebrated shoeing system of 

 La Fosse. Opening the heels. Exceptions to the general prin- 

 ciples of shoeing. Internal structure of the foot. Mobility and 

 elasticity of tendons, in defiance of the early decrees of the Vete- 

 rinary College. Natural functions of the frog. Summary of the 

 parts of the internal and sensible foot, p. 42 — 52. 



SECTION IX. p. 52. 



Defects of the feet and legs. Wide, flat, and soft hoofs — their oppo- 

 sites, with contracted or narrow heels and deficient frogs. Too 

 small feet for the size of the horse, a defect. General defect in 

 the feet of English road horses, a thin and weak hoof, and tender 

 crust. Grand defect in a saddle or quick draught horse, the toe 

 not pointing in a right line, whence ' knocking and cutting,' 

 either with the toe or heel. Hinder hoofs the strongest. ' Ham- 

 mer and pincers,' or over-reaching. The running thrush. Corns. 

 Sandcracks. False quarter. Quittor or javart. The founder. 

 Grcgginess, styled by the Italians sobitaturu, or surbating. 

 Canker. Loss of hoof. Nerving, no novelty, p. 52 — 56. 



SECTION X. p. 57. 



Various defects in the legs, their seat and causes — in the hoofs and 

 heels. A further enumeration, comprehending those in different 



