Essays on horse subjects

Chapter 2: PREFACE

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A collection of practical, experience-based essays by a veteran horseman and veterinarian that examine anatomy, breeding, care, and performance. Chapters discuss what constitutes quality in horses, hereditary unsoundness, hitching, horseshoeing and hoof care, correct action and common gait faults (forging, over-reaching, interfering, clicking), the horse's mouth and bitting, turning out and conditioning, exercise regimes, seasonal coat care, digestive disorders, and the use of burrs on bits. The pieces blend observation, anatomical explanation, and applied guidance aimed at bridging veterinary knowledge and everyday stable practice, emphasizing prevention, soundness, and the material causes underlying visible faults.

PREFACE

Having been requested to contribute from time to time, articles for papers devoted to the horse, I have an accumulation of these that I thought it might not be amiss to publish under the title of “Essays on Horse Subjects.”

Many of these subjects I have never seen any literature upon, and these Essays are largely the result of twenty-eight years’ experience as a practical horseman and veterinarian. Covering as they do the borderland between the provinces of the veterinarian and horseman, they relate to subjects which have been to a large extent neglected by both. This fact is my excuse for publishing them. F. C. G.