Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1859-11-10
Agricultural.
The PAGES of Saddle Horses.

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I The PAGES Of Saddle Horses.
The horse has four distinct natural
PAGES, The Walk, TTot, Cdnter, ana
Gdllop any other IS artificial, or deteci
arising from bad or imperfect education.
Difficult as this may be to describe upon
paper, l viii endeayor to make myself
understood. The sUalk is known by the
feet beating time upon the road distinctly
at regular intervals, thus, l. 2, 3, A, 4. e.,
the off-fore foot, near hind, near fore and
off hind, one after the other; this is pro-
fessionally called equal action, constitut-
ing soundness, and the deviation from this
regular motion is called unequal action,
denoting unsoundness from some cause.
1t should be the especial care of the
breaker or teacher of the young horse to
see that he walks well and smart. He
should then be taught TO trot, slow al
first, and as he progresses to perfection,
improve the speed the latter is work of
time, and not the duty of the breaker
The 7rOt differs from the walk, inasmuch
as The beat upon the road is more like l,
2, 1,2, as if the horse had only two feet
instead of four; this is produced by the
off fore, and near hind feet moving to-
gether, or nearly so, and the near fore
and off hind doing the same, and this
professionally, like the walk, constitutes
equal action, or soundness.
When horses are going very quick, they
appear to move the fore and hind legs on
the same side together, but this is only in
appearance, not in reality; when pushed
to the utmost trotting pace, some gallop
with one hind leg, and some with BOTH
At that pace they go in all forms, and
very few are able TO maintain the pure
trot.
The Canter should also be taught, moi
only for the purpose of carrying ladies'
when wanted, but it is relief on long
journeys. both to the horse and rider, to
change the pace.
The Gallop. In this pace, generally
speaking, the horse should lead with his
off fore foot, but a lady's horse especially
should always do so. Full blooded hor-
ses, when racing, and very clever hunt
ers, can change and go well, and it is ar
advantage to do so, but it is the exception
and not the rule.
The Gallop is used for racing and hun
ting the word running is often used in
stead of galloping. When horses are
running a race, they are in the act of gal
Looping, not running; horse running il
not galloping, nor galloping is not run
ming, excepting when the word race j:
also applied a running horse is trotting
horse, not galloping race horse-I vii
endeavor to show.
The Pace is artificial, and is learned
by habitually carrying good horsemar
in fast walk. None but perfect road
sters can do this; it is performed with the
fore legs walking. and the hind one:
trotting the horse can do this well, abou
six miles an hour, is valuable as hack
and is called a pacing hackney.
R,rnning-The running trot is alsc
artificial, mis.called PAGER. The run o.
running trot is exactly the same as thu
walk, but quicker, the feet beat time dis
tinctly, at regular intervals, the same a
the walk, /, 2, 8, a, no matter how quick
this is running, and when we'll done is {
very easy pace for both horse and rider
There is a nonderscript way of going
which some animals are allowed to as
sumo, consisting of the fore and hinc
limbs on one side moving together tn,
same as if the fore and hind legs on eacl
side were tied together, as is sometime
done with hill sheep, when they are mis-
chievous, causing a motion as unnatura
as it is ugly; it is an imperfection, arisini
from neglect, ignorance, or lll-treatment
: all or any of them, easily remedied, an
$ never should be allowed.
: The .An.bIe.-"With an ambling pa
pony to pace o'er the lawn" The Cante
is a modification of the gallop, but short
er and slower, and the Amble is modl
ication of the Canter, still shorter an
still slower; as the former is used for Ia
, dies, so the latter is required for old age
and young children, the one requirin
ease and the other experience.
l have only to observe that every horse
|. man, who studies the comfort of hin
self and his horse, will not ride with lon
stirrups, and his toes sticking out; an
e with his body as stiff as if he had swa
lowed poker. He will sit as easy as
he was in an armchair, with his reins j
one hand and the other in any positio
the most easy and agreeable to himself
OLD WH1P, in N. Y. SPIRIT Of the Time