River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-08-01
The thoroughbred Horse.

We copy the following from the
the Turf, Field and Farm, AMI COM
mend it's perusal to our agricultural
readers:
If you will examine the thorough
bred, you will, on investigation, find a
superior organiZation-his bones are
more solid, his tendons stronger and
much better defined, his muscles more
firm and elastic-in fact, as his form
and quality are SO much superior, it
results that he is much more active,
much more feet, and much more pow
erful than any other variety of the
horse tribe. He will perform much
much more labor i'll a given tiue, and
repeat the task oftener, coming
around much quicker from over.
work, than any animal of in
feriOr blood. When the cold blooded
horse is overworked, his spirits
sink, and his recovery is slow and
sometimes never complete. The
thoroughbred's game and pluck are as
superior to the cold blooded mongrel's
as the game cock s are to the dunghill's.
A square inch of bone from thorough
bred horse is much heavier than a
square inch from cart or mongrel-
bred horse, the latter being more por-
Gus and calcarious, resembling pumice
stone, while the former is solid, par
taking more of the close grained nature
of ivory. The same remark will apply
to the tendons and muscles. Conse-
quently "a thoroughbred horse will be
stronger than cart horse in little
more than half the compass. IL is
asserted-and is doubtless true-that
the thoroughbred can support greater
weight upon his back than the common
| horse.
For all farming purposes the blood
horse is in every way superior to the
scrub, and more particularly in the
South and Southwest, where the heat
of the climate makes good wind and
endurance an almost indispensable
requisite. Experience has convinced
all the owners of stage and express
lines that it is good economy TO pay
higher prices for horses of some blood
than to buy the common horses at even
comparatively low rates. All our livery
and stable keepers will agree in tins
opinion.
Take any of our large farms, and we
do not fear to hazard the opinion that
if the horses are inspected at the time
they usually lay by their crops, it will
be found that the best bred horses are
invariably in the best condition, with
out reference to size, and that at all
times, on push, they have been able
to do the most work. Let any of our
readers try the following experiment
next season: Take a half-bred and
scrub, when the corn is about up TO
the horses withers, and pillow with
them side by side, or in the same field,
and see which can endure the heat and
stand up best under the labor and
fatigue. We have no fear as TO the
result. The half.bred will be found
superior. Indeed, the thoroughbred
! is so superior TO any other variety that
the quality Of the horses Of any por-
ton of the country will be found to
correspond with their breeding,
declining in proportion az they
recede from the acknowledged
thoroughbred. Blood, as the Eng
lish have found, always tells in the
hunting field. When the speed Of the
hound became so improved as 10 out
strip the common English hunter, re-
course was had 20 the well.bred and
\ three-quarter- bred horses, and now fox
hunting in England has become a sys.
tenn OF racing under heavy weights, in
which nothing but full blooded, OF
something nearly approximating it,