THE ROAD HACK.
His conformation—The ladies’ horse—Rotten Row—The covert
hack—The hunter—For an open country—For a cramped country—‘Made
hunters’—Pleasures of a pulling horse—Breaking in a colt to
hounds—‘Can he leap?’—Natural jumpers—Artificial fences—Lifting
horses at their fences—An incident—Water jumps—How to
fall well—High-couraged _versus_ sluggish horses—Washing
horses’ legs—Mud fever—Stopping horses’ feet—Microscopic
experiments—English racers in Australia and India—Paring horses’
feet—Colts shedding their teeth—Composition of bone—Two-year-old
racing—Prize-fighters—Early maturity and early decay—Famous
American trotters: Topgallant, Lady Blanche, Dutchman, Ajax,
Flora Temple, Lady Thorn, Goldsmith Maid, Dexter, American
girl—Racing now-a-days a money-making business 75