Bismarck weekly tribune., 1888-12-14

AN ENGLISH STABLE.
VARIOUS TYPES OF HORSES DE-
scRlBED BY AN OWNER.
The GrOom's Favorite-The slashine, Well
Bred hut Unsafe Horse-Handsome but
Hardly Sound - Seventeen Years Old.
The Nife's Steed-The Hack
Well, here is horse with plain head,
rather a short neck, moderate shoulders, a
good barrel, fair quarters and most excel
lent feet and legs. Feel them and you will
find them cool and even in temperature and
the sinews hard and fine. He is little want
ing in 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 little slovenly at his
fences What, then, are his virtuesa He is
the groom's favorite! He is never off his
feed, and he thoroughly masticates his corn.
He is 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, to eat
his straw, or to commit any other stable
ot-ense. He is easy to box at railway sta
tim; q child might ride him without a
saddle at excercise; when being clipped or
sirged you might take him for statue, SO
CT. II f1ooc bo StanSs 0pA ho
to enjoy physic Accordingly, whenever his
master talks of selling him, the stud groom
protests that it ''would be thousand pities.n
that stake i'm all and all, he's the best loss
we've got"
horse, with plenty of power Take care!
Don't go up to him. He sometimes 'slets out .
This is the best hunter in the stable. and he
is as sound as bell. He is very fast, and a
grand fencer; bitches on the near side, bitches
on the far side, banks, timber, water, all are
the same to him. He will fight for his head
good deal when hounds first go away: he
pulls and he does not like to be balked at his
fences. He does not exactly rush at them,
but he is very hot and impetuous This being
crampcd country on a bad scenting day.
1AOOuU tWASO VI VAAAC0 Al d oedSOl ll0 SCEIK3S
out at other horses (and 'twhen he do kick,
he do kick like blazes," as the cabman says
in Leech's caricature), 80 it is not safe to take
him into crowd. He is difficult horse to
box, too; so it is inconvenient to take him BY
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.
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helper, as we move on to the mex. box. This
is the best looking horse in the stable. In
fact, he is a remarkably handsome specimen
of hunter; hence the groom's anxiety to
show him off, It 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 sundry alarming symptoms that have
manifested themselves from time to time.
After one days hunting his near fore leg
filled in a suspicious manner; after another
he was lame without any apparent cause;
and in 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 q confidential looking
quadruped. The holes above his eyes, his
long teeth, his sunken back and the manner
in which he stands over betoken age He is
II years old; nevertheless, he goes on, some
times lame, sometimes sound. He is 80 clever
and such an old favorite that his master can
not make up his mind to supplant him with Q
younger and moro serviceable horse. Excel
lent fencer as he is, he will not, and never
would, face water. His master has to be
careful, too, neither to let him jump down a
drop into hard road nor to send him to a
distant meet, nor to make 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 off, or scrambling in
and out, where one would expect him to fy.
He will probably end his career by giving
his devoted owner very bad fall.
ssMY w1FE's HORSE"
This our friend shows to us as 'smy wife,s
horse" Heis a model Of what Iady's horse
ought to be in make and shape, breeding.
temper and manners. Lucky the woman
who possesses such hunter! Between en-
tertaining 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 at all that season, be-
cause she gave up her horse to her husband,
whereas she had in reality been prevented
from hunting by very different reasons. It
is scarcely to be wondered at that the hus
band refrained from riding the cherished
quadrui,ed for the future, and when his wife
suddenly took it into her head to 20 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 s'puttine
a lady on brute like that" affirming that
''he was not at all the sort Of horse for wo-
man to ride" ETC., ETC.
Last of allw 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 to carry
man heavier than his master, fine slQping
shoulders and very muscular loins, quarters
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