As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I like it that George Washington trained horses, hounds, Armies and Niggers with equal devotion, as it was of benefit to all.
"The Marquis de Chastelleux speaks of the perfect training of Washington's saddle horses, and says the general broke them himself. He adds "He (the general) is an excellent and bold horseman, leaping the highest fences and going extremely quick, without standing upon his stirrups, bearing on the bridle or letting his horse run wild; circumstances which our young men look upon as so essential a part of English horsemanship, that they would rather break a leg or an arm than renounce them."
It is one of the facts of George Washington in he always had the best of quality he could afford. His fox hounds were a merriment to him, in running so close in pack they could not be distinguished.
His slaves were productive whereby other Jeffersonian plantations went bankrupt.
His Army beat the best military in the world.
His horses were equal in the American would seek out the best of equines for his stables. We have seen in paintings the grand horses which George Washington rode. They had to be large horses, as he was a very tall man.
His stock was of that American character of beauty, based upon the Arab breeds captured in the Ottoman wars with the English.
I watch old movies and I love the American horses which disappeared in that slight brown muzzle they had. There is in Clint Eastwood movies those Italian horses which are so Roman necked and thin at times, and in a Few Dollars More which TL said was filmed in Spain, the horses are so much better looking, but still have that Roman neck on them, but that English Thoroughbred look to them.
The English thoroughbred is a flatter more powerful looking animal for Steeplechase while the American thoroughbred is rounder and more thin boned for speed.
When it approaches the Quarterhorse, that is where the power appears in the bulldog types of ropers.
George Washington's horses have the look of them as the American breed from the start. It has always been a dream of mine to have 1 million dollars to throw away, in obtaining the semen from Secretariat, as that is what it cost to use his seed, and then produce a foal, which I would pamper.
I would not even attempt to race the horse. It would just be for riding even if it was a stud, which I have noticed as my Vet John said, "The ground seems to be getting harder now", as he was bucked off.
It is a point though that I have in my e books found a 19th century horse training manuscript which I hope to try on horses for training sometime. Theodore Roosevelt always said that you gentle a horse in it was the best training, and the General certainly in all the horses he owned, must have had a real talent in making two and four legged creatures submit to his will.
Breaking a horse is the last thing you ever want to do. No more than breaking a human spirit or a dog's spirit. You work with an animal on their learning speed and that is the correct way to teach.
Darby is my Quarterhorse Paint. She is an animal who was spoiled by a little girl, as Darby liked crow hopping on the end of a rope next to me, or enjoyed laying her ears back and biting at me when I walked.
I did not have the health nor strength to train these horses, so I just dealt with her in picking up a weed stalk while in the pasture and projecting it out behind me, to keep her from biting.
That took two years, but in passive training, she stopped doing what she had been spoiled to do.
It is one of the things which upsets me most about accomplished people is they never write of their real accomplishments and historians are only interested in politics or battle.
I would love to read an in depth procedure of how George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt trained horses. George Washington was one of the best horse traders around as he had an eye for it. His skill at that is something which posterity should have as it is something as vital as the Constitution.
It occurs to me that there should have been a Nigger Training Manual. Think of all the assistance it could have been to Africans fresh off the boat, overseers too free with the whip or penis, and for the profit of both in getting slaves to work, if there was just a Nigger training book.
Of course, I am not supposed to say such things, and it is startling to read of such things, but it resonates in fact that this book would have made a great deal of money, along with seminars at plantations in how to get the Negroid to work productively.
George Washington figured out how to do this in every aspect of his life. Certainly he had exceptions as while he could train a Nigger, he never could train his friend Thomas Jefferson the democrat to not be a backbiting snit, but that is why Jefferson was elected a democrat to the White House in no one could do anything with him, and the slaves were all out picking cotton who were trained right and when not were just out making more Niggers in the nest.
Certainly is a fact, when people come here, they learn things every time, and they find themselves thinking about things that would never occur to them.
I picture George Washington with ropes and halters, teaching his horses to be trained without them. He did everything so well from grinding flour to keeping accounts of his bills, that a horse would naturally respond to that in desiring to please their trainer.
George Washington even bred the giant white Jacks in donkeys which produced that class of large white mule you have seen all through history.
Yes when Thomas Jefferson was off with foolish gadgetry, George Washington was advancing what was necessary in America.
It is just me, but I would rather watched George Washington train a horse than to have been at a historic moment like his signing the Constitution. It is just me though in I spend more time in studying old photos than I will in reading about them, because no one ever writes about how they did things in detail.
I have photo of an old hearth with long handle fry pans and things. I study that from time to time to see what I can see in it.
George Washington would never write a history or his biography, but he should have written books on his expertise in training people and animals. He was gifted in this, and it would have been so very worth it.
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