pole-evil

Updated: May 2, 2025

The objection is that, when a horse has to raise heavy logs in the stall for each mouthful of hay, the strap wears his mane. For this reason a front is used to the head-stall; it however then wears the horse’s head, and is the origin of what is called pole-evil; the bone of the nose is often worn through by the nose-band, forming abscesses inside the nostrils.

George Greenwood - Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece: or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding