The new system of educating horses, including instructions on feeding, watering, stabling, shoeing, etc with practical treatment for diseases . to. go as he pleases, in a yard or field, for half anhour or more, which may be repeated once or twice, tomake the mouth accustomed to and hardened to the jjut on a surcingle with check and side reins, bucklingthe reins at first so long as to bring but little restraint uponthe mouth. After being on thirty or forty minutes, take itoff. At each repetition buckle the reins a little shorter,until the head is submitted up and back freely to the che
The new system of educating horses, including instructions on feeding, watering, stabling, shoeing, etc with practical treatment for diseases . to. go as he pleases, in a yard or field, for half anhour or more, which may be repeated once or twice, tomake the mouth accustomed to and hardened to the jjut on a surcingle with check and side reins, bucklingthe reins at first so long as to bring but little restraint uponthe mouth. After being on thirty or forty minutes, take itoff. At each repetition buckle the reins a little shorter,until the head is submitted up and back freely to the seems needless to introduce details of a bitting simple construction of the ordinary kind will answervery well, and the style is so generallv understood that a BITTING THE COLT. 49 description here is unnecessary. The object being to bringsuch restraint upon the bit that the head will be held upand back most natural and easily, without giving freedomto the head except in the direction of the reins. Careshould be taken to have the throat latch so loose, that therewill be no pressure of it upon the throat when checked Bitting the Colt. The gag-runners should be well up near the ears. Caremust be taken not to bring too much restraint upon the bitby buckling the reins so short at first, as to endanger causingthe colt to throw himself over backwards and break hisneck. It is bad policy to keep a colt checked up too longat a time, as it becomes tiresome, which would cause aresting of the head upon the bit and thus form the disagree-able habit of lugging. If, however, the colt should fight therestraint of the bit or check, it should be left on till the fitexhausts itself and he shows a disposition to submit to itsrestraint. Short lessons at first, and gradually keeping on longer asthe mouth becomes hardened by the bit and the colt willbear it without fatigue, is the best course. After the usual course of checking up in this manner, 4 50 DRIVING IN HARNESS. take a
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