Identifier: horsehoundtheirv00nimr (find matches)
Title: The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Nimrod, 1778-1843
Subjects: Horses Hounds Horsemanship
Publisher: Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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instead of an irksome task.A horse of this description is easily held, is kind athis turns, in fact, will nearly make them of his ownaccord; will either wait or make play, as his ridersorders may be ; and when called upon to challenge,is ready to do his best. More than this, he isalways going within himself, because he is obedientto his jockey*s hand ; and his temper is at leastequal to 4 lbs. weight in his favour. We now conclude our remarks on jockeyshipwith a short description of the finish of a race, con-finino- the scene of action to the last four hundredyards; the leading horses being, we will suppose,some head and girth, others head and neck, andothers head and head. We will farther supposeour jockey to be in the midst of them, with verylittle left in his horse, but just enough to win hisrace. The set-to is about to begin, or, in otherwords equally technical, he is about to call uponhis horse. But before he does this, he alters hisposition in his saddle. He has been previously
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FINISH OF A RACE. 309 standing up in his stirrups, with his body leaninga little forward over the horses withers, and hishands down, somewhat below them. He nowchanges the position of both body and hands: heseats himself firmly down in his saddle, his bodycatching, as it were, the stride of the horse ; and,raising his hands off his withers, first gives him aneasy pull, and then, and not till then, the set-tobegins. He now moves his hands, as if describinga circle, by way of rousing his horse, by shakinghim, as it is called ; and although he does notquite slacken his reins, he allows him to reach withhis head, as a distressed horse will always do, andwhich is technically termed throwing him in.Then comes the last resource. If he finds, whenwithin a few yards of home, that he cannot win bythese means, and that his horse appears to sink inthe rally, he stabs him a few times with his spurs ;gets his whip up in his right hand, giving a goodpull with his left, and uses it as occasion may re

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