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Title: The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Nimrod, 1778-1843
Subjects: Horses Hounds Horsemanship
Publisher: Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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APING PURCHASE OF A HUNTER. There is no description of horse which could beapplied to so many purposes, racing excepted, asthe powerful English Hunter. Setting aside hisown peculiar services in the field, he is fit to carrya man on the road, on the field of battle, and heanswers for every kind of draught. Indeed, weare inclined to believe no horse would equal him inploughing; and as for road-work on harness, eitherslow or fast, nothing could touch him, in a carriageproperly suited to his powers. It is, however, noless true than singular, that out of a hundredsportsmen assembled at the meeting of a packof fox-hounds, not half-a-dozen would be foundmounted on horses which they themselves hadbred. This arises from two causes,—first, thegreater part of them have not patience to await thearrival of a youns: horse at his best, and conse-quently sell the few they do breed, without givingthem a fair trial; and, secondly, such has, of lateyears, been the prejudice against riding mares in the
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PRESENT PRACTICE IN BREEDING. 7J hunting field, that they have been chiefly left inthe hands of farmers and yeomen, who are becomethe principal breeders of English hunters. Neitherdo hunters find their road direct from the breederto the studs of noblemen or gentlemen. Theygenerally go through the hands of an inferiorcountry dealer, from whom they are bought by theprincipal London and country dealers, and sold bythem to the sportsmen of the various hunts. Thereare, of course, exceptions to this proceeding. Agreat proportion of English yeomen and farmersare very excellent horsemen, and, as such, havingthe capability of making their young horses intohunters, and, distinguishing them by riding themafterwards with hounds, obtain now and then ashigh a price for them as they fetch after havingpassed through the hands we have described. Itis, however, to be lamented that the last-mentioneddescription of persons, the breeders and trainers ofyoung hunters, do not, for the most part, realizesuch

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