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Show Sensitive Horses. HarBh treatment, though it stop short of inflicting physical pain, keeps a nervous nerv-ous horse in a state of misery. On the other hand, it is perfectly true, as a be-Botted be-Botted but intelligent stable keeper once observed to me, "A kind word for a hoss is as good sometimes as a feed of oats." A single blow may be enough to spoil a racer. Daniel Lambert, founder of the Lambert branch of the Morgan family, fam-ily, was thought as a 3-year-old to be the fastest trotting stallion of his day. He was a very handsome, stylish, intelligent intel-ligent horse, and also extremely sensitive. sensi-tive. His driver, Dan Mace, though one of the best reinsmen in America, once made the mistake, through ill temper or bad judgment, of giving Daniel Lambert a severe cut with the whip, and that single sin-gle blow put an end to his usefulness as a trotter. He became wild and ungovernable ungovern-able in harness and remained so for the rest of his life. In dealing with a horse more than with most animals one ought to exercise patience, pa-tience, care and above all the power of sympathy, so as to know if possible the real motive of his doing or refusing to do this or that. To acquire such knowledge knowl-edge and to act upon it when required is a large part of the ethics of horse-keeping. horse-keeping. Youth's Companion. |