Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-08
AN ENGLISH STABLE.
VARIOUS TYPES OF HORSES DE-
SCRlBED BY AN OWNER.
The Groom's Favorite-The Slashinc, Well
Bred but Unsafe Horse-Handsome but
Hardly Sound = Seventeen Years Old.
The Wife's Steed-The Hack

Bred but Unsafe Horse-Handsome but
Hardly Sound = Seventeen Years Old.
The Wife's Steed-The Hack
Well, here is a horse with a plain head,
rather short neck, moderate shoulders, .
good barrel, fair quarters and most excel
lent feet and legs Feel them and you viii
find them cool and even in temperature and
the sinews hard and fine. He IS a little want
ing II quality, he is not fast-in fact, in a
quick run, it is all you can do TO keep in the
immediate rear OF the first flight with him
He is not exactly bad hunter, but he gives
his rider the impression that he dislikes
jumping. and he is a little slovenly at his
fences. What, then, are his vrtuess He I,
the groom's favoritel He is never of his
feed, and he thoroughly rnasticates his corn
He is a remarkably sound horse He never
throws shoe He always comes out In his
turn. Never has he been known TO tear his
clothing, to kick when being dressed, 20 eat
his straw, or to commit any other stable
offense. He is easy to box at a railway sta
ton; a child might ride him without a
saddle at exercise; when being clipped or
singed you might take him for statue, so
still does he stand; and he seems positively
to enjoy physic Accordingly, whenever his
master talks Of selling him, the stud groom
protests that it would De a thousand pities,n
that take i'm all and al, he's the best 'oss
we've got"
We next come TO a great, slashing well bred
horse, with plenty of power. Take carei
Don't 60 up to n He sometimes s'lets outn
This is the best hunter il the stable, and he
is as sound as bell he is very fast, and
grand fencer; bitches on the near side, bitches
on the far side, banks, timber, water, all are
the same TO him He viii fight for his head
a good deal when hounds first go away: he
pulls, and he does not like to be baked at his
fences He does not exactly rush at them,
but he is very hot and iInpetuous. This being
the case, he is far from pleasant horse IN
cramped country on bad scenting day.
About twice or thrice in season he strikes
cut at ether horses and ''when be do kick,
ne do kick ike blazes,n as the cabuan saws
in Leechs caricaturel, so it is not safe to take
him into a crowd. He is difficult horse to
box, too; so it is inconvenient to take him bv
train Between one thing and another, there
is only about one meet IN ten days at which
his present master can ride him with comfort
NOT a SOUND ANIMAL
''Strip that 'oss," says that official to a
helper, as we move on TO the next box This
Is the best looking horse in the stable In
fact, he is q remarkably handsome specimen
Of a hunter; hence the groom's anxiety TO
show him OF. 1t would be hard to find a
fault with him He cost something fabulous
Indeed, he is SO valuable that his master is
afraid of riding him. This fear is increased
by sundrv alarming symptoms that have
manifested themselves from time to time
After one days hunting his near fore leg
filed IN a suspicious manner; after another
he was lame without any apparent cause;
and IN q certain run his owner half suspected
that his wind was not so good as it might be.
He has had several bad colds and occasion
ally he has corns. He comes out pretty
often, at near meets; but his master never
seems to ride hard on him, and he is always
sent home early.
In the next box IS a confidential looking
quadruped. The holes above his ewes, his
long teeth, his sunken back and the manner
IN which he stands over betoken age He is
Il years old; nevertheless, he goes On, some
times lame, sometimes sound He is so clever
and such an old favorite that his master can
not make up bis mind to supplant him with a
younger and more serviceable horse Excel
lent fencer as he is, he viii not. and never
would face water His master has TO be
careful, too, neither 70 let him jump down a
drop into hard road nor TO send him TO a
distant meet, nor to make a long day with
him Like most very old horses, he has lost
his speed: and he has become dangerously
clever at his fences, saving himself by creep
ing, jumping On and OF, or scrambing ID
and out, where one would expect him to fl.
Ee viii probably end his career by giving
his devoted owner very bad fall
MY wIFE'S HORSE
This our friend shows to US as ''my wife's
horse Heis model of what lady's horse
ought to be IL make and shape. breeding.
temper and manners Lucky the woman
who possesses such hunterl Between en-
guests, visits, colds and additions
to the family, my lady gives her horse a
rather easy time OF it. Moreover, on the
strength OF her husbands having got on her
favorite for an hour on two occasions, the
wife has been heard coolly to assert that she
had not been hunting az all that season, be-
cause she gave up her horse to her husband.
she had in reality been prevented
from hunting by very different reasons. Ii
is scarcely to be wondered at that the hus-
band refrained from riding the cherished
suddenly took it into her head 20 go out
hunting at short notice, the creature was so
playful that madame was almost. if not
quite, unseated Confidential friends then
expostulated with her husband for putting
O lady on brute ike that affirming that
ne was not at all the sort Of horse for a wo-
man TO ride" etc, etc.
Last OF all we come TO the hack, and very
nice little horse he Is Although only about
fifteen hands and one inch in height, he
has great strength, bone enough 70 carry 8 |
man heavier than his master, fine slopirg /
shoulders and very muscular loins, quarters /
and thighs. He Is as clever as 3 cat, and, II |
the fences look very big from his back. he /
gets over them better than do many horses
hand higher His master IS seldom In q
hurry 10 exchange him for his hunter; he 4
often hunts him on 8 by-day, and In the 4
course of the season he sees s. good many /
runs on him This little horse is expected TO i
give days hunting 70 4 friend Of his mas
ter's, whether male or female, whenever re- /
4uirsd, IN addition 70 his hacking WORK; and, I
because he IS olly hack and not a hunter, /
is thought Of hunting him two or 1
three times q week. He does far more work i
than any other horse il TIE stable; he Is /
never sick, sorry or lame; he is quite fit and /
ouJ cub hunting when the rest Of the stud 1
are only eoiug walking exercise, and be car
-ies his master in Rotten Row when they are /
being sumnered Review.