Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — How to Tell a Good Horne. [ARTICLE]

How to Tell a Good Horne.

“I never ask about a horse’s traits*” 9aid a horse buyer, the other day. “All I want is a good square look-in tb* (ace. Once in a hundred times I

may mistake the head, but not oftener’tban that, I believe.” It doesn’t require an expert to read horses’ faces, either. A person who has never handled a horse can saunter down Broadway any afternoon and point out the Rood, docile family Carriage horse, the biting horse, the treacherous animal, the one likely to kick or run at any moment, or the proud, high-spirited horse that may be dangerous, and yet not, vicious in the least. The kicking horse can yearly always be singled out by the vicious gleain in his eye, which stamps him a born kicker. Of all horses/ though, the miserable-looking horse attracts most attention. This is the horse persecuted by the check-rein. Like men and women who wear shoes too small, he shows the outward evidence of misery. Maqy good-natured horses, horsemen say, have been made fretful and vicious by being enslaved by the infamous and cruel check-rein. There are horses broken down by long and continuous service for man, which show sad facial expression.