The horse in the stable and the field : his varieties, management in health and disease, anatomy, physiology, etc. . ve, the subject under manipulation is eitherinduced to drop his off foot into the noose, or it is slipped round his ankle,svhile the off rein is held by the other hand to keep the teeth off theoperator. As soon as this loop is firmly drawn round the leg, the other 196 THE HORSE end is slipped through the surcingle under the belly, and entire control ofthe horse is only a work of time. The arrangement of these straps is wellshown in the engravhig, where Cruiser is sketched ready
The horse in the stable and the field : his varieties, management in health and disease, anatomy, physiology, etc. . ve, the subject under manipulation is eitherinduced to drop his off foot into the noose, or it is slipped round his ankle,svhile the off rein is held by the other hand to keep the teeth off theoperator. As soon as this loop is firmly drawn round the leg, the other 196 THE HORSE end is slipped through the surcingle under the belly, and entire control ofthe horse is only a work of time. The arrangement of these straps is wellshown in the engravhig, where Cruiser is sketched ready for the finalstruf--gle. Up to this time, almost every horse Avill be tolerably quiet andunresisting, some squealing when any approach is made to their elbows totighten the surcingle, and others when the strap No. 2 is slipped throughit! Few, however, plunge much; and if they are made to hop on threele^s they are able to go on for so long a time, without producing thenecessary amount of fatigue, that the operator would be tired before hispupil. It is at this stage—that is to say, with the use of the leg-strap. CRUISER IN THE POWER OF HIS MASTER. No. 1—that the predecessors of Mr. Raiey stopped, and they consequentlyfailed to gain the absolute control which he has invariably obtained withthe slight, but really important, additions which he has made, and whichhe uses in the ingenious manner which I shall now describe. It may beobserved that, with a violent horse, it is always better to let him feel hiswant of power for doing mischief with the near fore-leg strapped up, andthe slight degree of fatigue which a few minutes hopping will produce,before the second strap is called into play, especially if the operator hasnot acquired great skill in the use of the apparatus. When this is done,and the second strap is applied, and slipped through the surcingle, asshown above, taking care to put a stout glove on the right hand,the left rein is taken in the left hand, and gently jerked
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