Part I. PerfeSi Farrier. $$ 



though they have a very fenfible feeling, which pro- 

 ceeds moft from the thinnefs of their Skin, yet 

 are of a dull and craving Nature and Difpofition. 

 Of fuch Horfes it may be faid, that they are rather 

 ticklith, than really fenfible of theSpurrs. 



There is great difference between a mettled 

 Horfe and a fiery one. A mettled Horfe mould be 

 efteem'd, but a fretting and fiery Horfe is good for 

 nothing. A Horfe truly vigorous fhould be calm 

 and cool, ride patiently, and not difcover his Mettle 

 but when required. 



Some Horfes, when a Man gives them the Spurs^ 

 will not endure them, nor go forwards, but ask 

 were cleaving and faftning to them, ftrike out, and 

 go back •, and if you prefs them hard, they will 

 then fall a pifling, and not Mir out of the place. 

 If he be a Gelding, he will with difficulty quit this 

 Humour *, but if he be a Stone-horfe, he may per- 

 haps forget it for a time, if he be under the Con- 

 dud of a good Horfeman ; but if he once get the 

 Mattery of any of his Riders, he will then be jult 

 to begin a- new again. This is not to fay, but 

 Geldings, if guilty of any other Vice but this of 

 Kicking againft the Spurs, may be eafily reduced, 

 if they have not been long accuftomed to it. In a 

 word, every Gelding, Stone-horfe, or Mare, which 

 does not fly the Spurs, but obftinately cleaves to 

 and kicks againft them, lhould be look'd upon as 

 of a crofs and dogged nature, and therefore to be 

 rejected. 



When you mount a Horfe to try him, if he will 

 not obey, but endeavours to go where he will, you 

 are to reject him, as a refty Jade ought always to be ; 

 for a Man lhould buy Horfes which have no other 

 Will fave that of their Rider. Thefe kind of Hor- 

 fes never quit altogether this Vice, and therefore 

 lhould not be meddled with. 



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