Horses in Action

R.H Smythe. 

hardback, second hand, photos and illustrations in black and white.

HORSES IN ACTION

This is a book for anybody with rides a horse, takes an interest in racing or steeple chasing, or has anything to do with horses It will be particularly valuable to anybody who own a horse, for the reader who studies the book carefully should learn a great deal about both the conformation and the mentality of horses, how they move and why they act in a certain way in certain circumstances, about wity they go lame or break down, and about the spinal stresses to which race horses and show-jumpers are subjected,

The author is a distinguished veterinary surgeon who has spent a lifetime with horses. In this book he passes on some of his accumulated knowledge, in a simple and straightforward way. Having looked briefly at the origins of the horse, he deals with equine vision, its peculiarities and its limitations. He then describes exactly how a horse jumps-a subject of great interest to all riders, but one about which many people are profoundly ignorant. He writes about the various gaits of the horse.