Stirrups, 55.
Dismounting with, 61.
Dismounting without, 63.
Mounting with, 60.
Origins of, 65.
Seat with, 66-67.
Stock farms, Kentucky saddle-horse, 47-53.
Stockwell, 12.
Stomach of horse, 225-226.
Treatment for acidity of, 248.
Stopping in driving—
Four-in-hand, 379-380.
Pair, 339-340.
Strain of tendons, 246.
Stumbling in saddle-horses, 18, 154.
Sultana, 8.
Sunfishers, rearing horses called, 100.
Sunol, trotting record, 290.
Sunstroke, treatment of, 248.
Defined, 104.
Sureness of foot, 18.
Syria early home of horse, 6.
Tables giving—
Doses for horses according to age, 250.
Numbers of horses in principal countries of world, 163.
Nutritive value of certain articles of diet, 237.
Trotting records since 1806, 290.
Weights and measures, 238, 250.
Taffolet Barb, 285.
Tail, defects regarding, 204.
Docking of, 304-305.
Over reins, 303-304.
Well-bred horse's, 202.
Tailer, T. Suffern, tandem authority, 392.
Chapter by, 401-425.
Tandem, carts employed when driving, 399-400, 404-408.
Derivation of name, 392.
Handling reins in, 398-399, 423.
Harness, 393-394. 408-411.
Lessons, 423-424.
Origin of the, 395.
Pony, 394.
Tattersall, Edmund, 30.
Taubenheim, Count, 72.
Teeth, horses', 173-175.
Age for appearance of various, 205-206.
Effect of food on, 206.
Irregular, 272.
Remedy for, 243.
Temperature, horse's, in health and disease, 240.
Tendons, strain of, 246.
The Abbot, trotting record, 290.
Thong of whip, management of, in driving—
Four-in-hand, 360-364.
Tandem, 414-417.
Thoroughbred, first, in America, 191.
Thoroughbreds, breeding of, 7-8, 9-10.
As riding-horses, 3-4.
Production of, unexplained, 7.
Throat-latch, the, 267.
Tires, wide vs. narrow, 194.
Toes of prehistoric horse, 170-173.
Tonics for horses, 247-248.
Top-coats for driving (driving capes), 419-420.
Trace, the, 265-266.
Traces, fastening outside, first, in putting to pair, 334.
Lapping of, 367.
Methods of fastening, in putting to four, 367.
Training, colts, 20-29, 291-299.
Effect of, on horses, 103-106.
Road-horse, 291-296.
Saddle-horse, in—
Backing, 135-137.
Gallop and gallop changes, 127-134.
Hind-quarter movements, 117-119.
Jumping, 138-146.
Movements on two paths, 125-126, 132.
Obeying spur, 109-111.
Tandem leader, 396-397.
"Trandom" driving, 424-425.
Tricks, riding-horses', 97-98.
Troopers. See Cavalry.
Trot, studies in riding at the, 95-97, 107.
Trotting, evolution of, 188-191.
Records of American, 290.
Trotting-horse, the American, 284-291.
Trouble, trotting record of, 290.
"Tucked up," meaning of, 200.
Tug, the, 265.
Tug girth, the, 316.
Turf, 285.
Turk, Duke of Newcastle's, 285.
Turning corners, 313, 328-329, 331, 375, 397.
Tusk, tooth called the, 205-206.
Two paths, movements on, 125-126, 132.
Underhill, Francis T., "Driving for Pleasure," by, 279, 352.
Unharnessing, process of, 316-317.
United States, number of horses in, 163.
See America.
Vaca, Cabeza de, horses imported by, 181.
Vaulting into saddle, 61-62.
Venison, 12.
Ventilation of stables, 39, 211, 212-213.
Vera Cruz, arrival of Cortes' horses at, 180.
Vices, cure of, 21-23, 151-152.
Viciousness, called insanity, 20-21.
Village Farm, Hamlins', 288.
Vinegar-and-water lotion, 247.
Virginia, horses in early, 181, 191.
Wagons, tires and axles of, 193-194.
Walk, studies in riding at the, 91-95.
Warming of collars, 333.
Water, advice for riding at, 143.
Amount of, for horses, 235.
Watering of horses in stables, 41, 222, 235.
Time of, 235-236.
Waxy, 12.
Weights and measures, tables of, 238, 250.
Wheel in gallop, production of, 132-133.
Whiffletrees used in tandem, 411.
Whip, four-in-hand, 359-364.
Holding the, 338.
Mountings of, 416-417.
Place for, before starting four horses, 368.
Position of, when applying brake, 307.
Riding, 56.
Saluting with, 364-365.
Use of, in driving, 149, 275-276, 313, 318, 331-332.
Whip stocks, 417.
Whip thongs, management of, 360-364, 414-417.
Whitechapel carts, 404-405.
White Turk, Place's, 285.
Williams, Lieutenant George, 83.
Windows of stables, 39, 213, 215.
Windpipe of ideal horse, 196.
Winkers, the, 266-267, 272, 297.
Winthrop, Governor, allusions to horses by, 181, 182.
Women, riding astride by, 87.
When taking obstacles, 145.
Woodford, Colonel John T., breeding farm of, 51-52.
Works mentioned, on—
Carriages, 279.
Driving, 279, 322, 343-344, 352.
Harness (bits), 268.
Physiology of horse, 171.
Stables, 279.
Tandem-driving, 394, 418-419, 422-423.
Worms, treatment for, 242-243.
Wounds, treatment of, 243-244.
Xenophon, "Art of Horsemanship" by, 64, 155.
Yankee, trotting record of, 290.
Yew, use of, in whips, 417.
"Youatt on the Horse," 171.