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 . Fig. 210.—Portrait from life of Old Hamble- tonian. Sire of the Hambletoniau trotters. BEFOEE TEEATMENT. 293. 294 STALLIONS. acter is changed. A great many cases of this kind havecome under my observation. At one time, a gentlemanwho had jjreviously attended one of my l
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 . Fig. 210.—Portrait from life of Old Hamble- tonian. Sire of the Hambletoniau trotters. BEFOEE TEEATMENT. 293. 294 STALLIONS. acter is changed. A great many cases of this kind havecome under my observation. At one time, a gentlemanwho had jjreviously attended one of my lectures, told methat he and his brother owned a fine stallion in horse was naturally quite gentle, but one day hisbrother, becoming impatient with him, hit him sharply; theresult was the horse ever afterward held such an antipathyagainst him that he could not safely go near or handle himin any way, while towards himself the horse was perfectlygentle. One of my pair of matched, trained horses, nine yearsold, bought in Madison, 0., and exhibited by me for a num-ber of years, was of good character at the time of cominginto my possession; but when 1 undertook to train him tobe controlled by the whip, he became so excited when hitthat he jumped at me with nil the ferocity of a bulldog,and I was obliged to tie him back. One sharp whipping,and leaving him mad, would have made him irretrievablyvicious; so I was very careful
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