The news - flash contemporaneity of his subject material , the complexly
counterpointed musical phrasing , and his tempestuous , politically incisive
wordplay collaborate to invest his poems with an unparalleled exigency . Born to
Slow Horses ...
Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819567451
Category: History
Page: 143
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to run , you can let him have the lines , and the whip too , with perfect safety , for
he can go but a slow gait on three legs , and will soon be tired , and willing to
stop ; only hold him enough to guide him in the right direction , and he will soon
be ...
Author: Knightley William Horlock
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Category: Fox hunting
Page: 328
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Colts by Mansfield also were significantly slower than those out of the same
mares by other stallions ( table 9 ) . ... These findings are demonstrated in figure 3
, which shows that slow horses ( those requiring 16 minutes or more to walk a
mile ) ...
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category: Agricultural credit
Page: 15
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A very slow horse can but go a certain pace ; if he were turned loose , he would
only go with more ease to himself ; but , in a very fast one , the effects of weight
shew themselves at once — the weight distresses him , the pace the other .
Author: Harry Hieover
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Category: Horses
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may be ) one - horse carts do at least equally well , and that if there is horse -
power sufficient to keep the ploughing in ... is kept for the horses ; but where
horses are kept for the purpose of working the farm , I submit that heavy , slow
horses ...
Author: Royal Agricultural Society of England
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Category: Agriculture
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Many horses are naturally slow , and cannot , except by abuse , be made very
active . It is of no use to attempt to teach such horses to be spry . They may be
somewhat improved , but natural tendencies will show themselves , and prove
difficult ...
Author: John Elliot Read
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Category: Agriculture
Page: 860
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Speed is quite indisponsable for a hunter ; and when hounds are running fast ,
while a slow horse is killing himself by going at the top of his pace all the time , a
fast horse is going within himself , and without either trouble or distress , Loug ...
Author: Everard William BOUVERIE
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Category:
Page: 106
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Too tight a rein , is at least , as bad as one too loose , a horse in the latter case
may get through his work if sure and ... Two slow horses together are much better
and will do more work than a free , and a slow or lazy one , for if , in the latter
case ...
Author: Commissariat and transport Corps
Publisher:
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Category:
Page: 143
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TRAINING THE TROTTER.- Slow horses made fast , fast horses made faster -
Breaking the colt – Learning to walk and trot -- Use of wagon or sulky - Feeding ,
jogging , and spurts of speed - Cautions to be observed — To keep up the
ambition ...
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Category: Cattle
Page: 600
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Some horses are very apt to turn their feet very much outwards or inwards in their
trot ; either defect is very unpleasant to the eye , and the latter often unsafe : the
former is usually found in slow horses , the other in fast trotters . To judge if such ...
Author: sir George Stephen
Publisher:
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Category: Horses
Page: 336
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For slow horses , turnips to a certain extent supersede corn , but for fast workers
they save the hay more than the corn . They have a fine odour when boiled , and
this seems to make the horse feed more heartily . They fatten the horse very ...
Author: John Stewart
Publisher:
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Category: Horses
Page: 436
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A HISTORY OF THE TURF AND THE TROTTING HORSE IN AMERICA . BY
JOHN ELDERKIN , AUTHOR OF “ HOW TO MAKE SLOW HORSES FAST , " & c .
, & c . [ From the Atlantic Monthly . ) NEARLY all the great trotting horses of
America ...
Author: Robert McClure (M.D., V.S.)
Publisher:
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Category: Horses
Page: 570
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It is a general remark how quiet some high - spirited horses will become when
ridden by ladies . ... The teamster will continue his driving without any cessation ,
and by the time he has the slow horse started again , he will find that the free ...
Author: John Solomon RAREY
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Page: 233
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Land und nails on your little finger , the horse is probably not less than 15 , and
perhaps 20 years of age . ... The steady , light horses are good for farm work
when the ground is light and even ; the heavy , slow horses , with firm tread are ...
Author: Angus MacKay
Publisher:
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Category: Agriculture
Page: 351
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He might go a distance then , in the race , because he went comparatively slow .
It must always be remembered that a slow horse can keep at his best pace longer
than a fast horse can at his , though in condition , bottom , and game they be ...
Author: Hiram Washington Woodruff
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Category: Horse racing
Page: 376
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He might go a distance then , in the race , because he went comparatively slow .
It must always be remembered that a slow horse can keep at his best pace longer
than a fast horse can at his , though in condition , bottom , and game they be ...
Author: Hiram Washington WOODRUFF
Publisher:
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Category:
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