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THE CHECK REIN

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 9, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 10.

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THE CHECK REIN.

THE cruel and senseless abuse of this rein for the gratification of ostentatious vanity is hit in its vital part by the following suggestion from the Ohio Sanitary Record: "If there were reason to believe that the check rein would, by the laws of evolution, give succeeding generations of horses better form, there might be the shadow of an excuse for this practice; but as the reining of a horse's head will weaken the muscles which support it, the tendency will be for horses of the future to be less and less able to support their heads, impairing their usefulness and marring their beauty of proportion."—Sanitary Era.