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Title: American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman's encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, shoeing, and general management. The modern and practical horse doctor on the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of all kinds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dimon, John
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : J. Dimon
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ed your horseone or two quarts of good clean oats, as it cannot be expectedthat a hungry horse can trot and last through a long, hardrace. lie cannot trot on a full stomach but requires somenourishment to keep him strong and to prevent that gnawing, all-gone feeling at the stomach. Make up your mind to win the race if possible; do so fairlywithout trickery or jockeNing. Dont try to say smart thingsto the starter; give the judges no back talk. It has been truthfully said that drivers are born, not made,and it is impossible to teach any man so that he can get up be-hind a horse and drive him successfully in a race, unless he hasthe natural gift for it. A driver going out on a campaign with horses is not, byany means, on a pleasure excursion, if he should attend prop-erly to his business. He should stay right with his horses,always remembering The time to succeed is when others,Discouraged, show traces of tire;The battle is fought in the home-stretchAnd won twixt the flag aad the wire. I
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CHAPTER XXXYI. BUYING AND SELLING HORSES. Requisite qualifications — Location—Suavity — Expert on horses — Buyingfor the market — Showing sale horses — The coachman. BEFORE deciding to engage in horse-dealing as a businessmy advice to any person is to first consider his qualifica-tions for this business ; in order to make this business a successone should have a special adaptation for it. As to the requisitequalifications of the successful dealer in horses, he should, firstof all, fully understand the horse in all respects, and know justhow to correct or humor his whims and to show him to thebest possible advantage to his friends and customers. Heshould as fully understand the examination of the horse whichhe contemplates purchasing for his customers as the veterinarywho examines and passes on the horses offered for cavalry ser-vice of a government or nation. He should be a good buyer,as a thing well bought is half sold ; he should also be a goodsalesman ; and I would say

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