180 THE STUD. 



a portmanteau, set end ways. Let the head, if 

 it is even large, be made somewhat wedge like, 

 and it will not be a very bad one. 



Many persons look greatly to ears, and consider 

 small ones indicative of good breeding. In re- 

 futation of this I only beg to remark that, that 

 lowest bred of most horses, the black Hanove- 

 rian, is often remarkable for small ears, and those 

 standing as we term " pricked." Our large dray. 

 and distillers' horses have mostly small ears com- 

 paratively with their size and bulk. One pecu- 

 liarity of the ear, the thoroughbred horse most 

 certainly generally possesses : they are thin, and if 

 they are, though they may be pendant, as those of 

 a lop-eared rabbit, it speaks nothing against the 

 aristocratic origin of his family. 



A large full eye I hold to be a very leading 

 indication of good breeding, though, of course, 

 many good horses have it not ; but more or less 

 race-horses usually have ; and in mentioning as I 

 do such horses, I mean it in this way, that the 

 more we can get the attributes of the race-horse 

 combined with the strength we want, the better 

 horse we shall get for any purpose. 



There is another form of the head that, without 

 referring to beauty, is indicative of valuable pro- 

 perties, or their reverse, namely, — the width 

 between the jaw-bones: I would wish such as 

 would almost conceal a wine-bottle. It is not my 



