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Jockey Tricks


How to make a horse appear as though he was badly

foundered

Take a fine wire and fasten it tightly around the fetlock,

between the foot and the heel, and smooth the hair over it. In twenty

minutes the horse will show lameness. Do not leave it on over nine

hours. To make a horse lame

Take a single hair from its tail, put it

through the eye of a needle, then lift the front leg and press the skin

between the outer and middle tendon or cord, and shove the needle

through, cut off the hair each side and let down the foot. The horse

will go lame in twenty minutes. How to make a horse stand by his food

and not take it

Grease the front teeth and the roof of the mouth with

common beef tallow, and he will not eat until you wash it out. This, in

conjunction with the above, will consummate a complete founder. How to

cure a horse from the crib or sucking wind

Saw between the upper

teeth to the gums. How to put a young countenance on a horse

Make a

small incision in the sunken place over the eye, insert the point of a

goose quill and blow it up; close the external wound with a thread, and

it is done. To cover up the heaves

Drench the horse with one-fourth

pound of common bird-shot, and he will not heave until they pass

through him. To make a horse appear as if he had the glanders

Melt

four ounces fresh Butter and pour into his ear. To distinguish between

glanders and distemper

The discharge from the nose in glanders will

sink in water; in distemper it floats. How to make a true pulling horse

balk

Take Tincture of Cantharides one ounce, and Corrosive Sublimate

one drachm; mix and bathe his shoulder at night. How to serve a horse

that is lame

Make a small incision about half way from the knee to

the joint on the outside of the leg, and at the back part of the shin

bone you will find a small, white tendon or cord; cut it off and close

the external wound with a stitch, and he will walk off on the hardest

pavement and not limp a particle.



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