The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . f a noted vicious Horse. On the same principle, if a man could catch and hold ahorse, or control him as he wished, so as to completely prevent his struggling andbecoming excited andheated, until the musclesare entirely relaxed andhe becomes submissive,and then win his c
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . f a noted vicious Horse. On the same principle, if a man could catch and hold ahorse, or control him as he wished, so as to completely prevent his struggling andbecoming excited andheated, until the musclesare entirely relaxed andhe becomes submissive,and then win his confi-dence by kind treatment,scratching the mane, giv-ing apples, etc., it wouldbe the most efficient kindof subjection. But asthere is not power to dothis, we must resort tosuch means or methods of management as will come as nearit in princii3le as we can. In doing this, if the horse weregiven such freedom asto encourage his confi-dence to resist, or hisIjad nature were calledout by ignorant, abusivetreatment, in like man-ner he Avould, in the furyof his madness, resistwith the greatest per-severance, regardless ofeven the most severepunishment. Thenagain, the resistance, whatever it may be, is only a symp-tom of the real cause to be overcome, which proceeds froma condition of the brain, or the impression made upon Fig. 17.—Expression of vicious, bad nature. GENERAJ. PEINCIPLES. 29 On this account, controlling physical resistance becomes buta temporary bridge across a gulf to enable building the realstructure. So subjection is but a means for reaching thebrain to remove the exciting cause of the resistance. Ifstimulated by fear, then to show there is no cause for fear;if through real viciousness, then to remove the resentmentby kind treatment; when the horses reason can be moldedand instructed in any channel desired. The next difficulty is thedifferent degrees of resist-
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