The Practical Stud Groom (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Practical Stud Groom Stallion Management; Importance of Exercise - An Easy "Start" Desirable; Covering Time; "Trying" Mares - The Speculum - The Service - The Inseminator; The Shoeing Smith's Duties; The Way to "Correct" Pigeon Toes, Splay Feet, and Upright Pasterns; Breaking Yearlings; The Cavesson - Putting on the Bridle - Removing the Bridle - The First Railway Journey - A Yearling's Forced Growth About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.